Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLES REQUIRED BY THE HOME OFFICE.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORK-PLACES
AND HOME WORK.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises 1 | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections. 2 | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. 4. | |
Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 35 | .. | .. |
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 202 | 41 | .. |
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report). | 17 | .. | .. |
Total | 254 | 41 | Nil |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Deferred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
Want of Cleanliness | 7 | 7 | .. | .. | |
Want of Ventilation . | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Overcrowding | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Other nuisances | 42 | 42 | .. | .. | |
†Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 3 | 3 | .. | .. |
unsuitable or defective | 15 | 15 | .. | .. | |
not separate for sexes | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
I11egal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Total | 67 | 67 | Nil | Nil |
*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshops
Art as remediable under the Public Health Acts.