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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE I.—FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
The following is a summary of the result of inspections made at Factories, Workshops and Workplaces during the year, with a list of Outworkers' premises, a copy of which has been forwarded to the Home Office, as required.
None of the Outworkers' premises was found to be in an unwholesome condition.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written | Prosecutions. | |||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | ||||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 118 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Workshops | 202 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| (Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises) | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 323 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS & WORKPLACES. | |||||||
| Particulars. | Number ol Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. | |||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||
| 12 | 12 | — | — | ||||
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — | |||
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |||
| Want of Drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |||
| Other nuisances | — | — | — | — | |||
| Sanitary accommodation ' | insufficient | 3 | 5 | — | — | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 6 | 6 | _ | _ | |||
| not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | — | — | |||
| — | — | — | — | ||||
| 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). | — | — | 5 | — | |||
| Total | 24 | 24 | 5 | — | |||
Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.