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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hornsey 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 0.INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors

TABLE 0.

INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries)316220
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries)485380
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises)5780
Total858680
DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS <Sr WORKPLACES
Pai ticulars.Number ol Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—*
Want of cleanliness111100
Want of ventilation————
Overcrowding2200
Want of Drainage of floors3300
Other nuisances151600
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient3300
unsuitable or defective252500
uot separate for sexes3300
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921).6600
Total686800

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*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
Note.—The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (s. 132), requires the Medical Officer of Health
in his Annual Report to the District Council to report specifically on the administration
of that Act in workshops and workplaces, and to send a copy of his Annual Report, or so
much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State,