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Stoke Newington 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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was called for in respect to these dwellings. That is to say, as
no house w as considered to be in a state so dangerous or injurious
to health as to unfit it for human habitation, no representations
were made to the Local Authority with the view to obtaining
Closing Orders, the general character of the defects found being
of a nature remediable under notices for the abatement of
nuisances. Certain other streets (Allen Road, Shakespeare Road,
Milton Road, and Spenser Road), and the Courts in Stoke
Newington, which were reported upon in previous years, were
reinspected during the year. No new houses were erected in the
Borough during 1915; but some old houses were converted into
flats.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
At the end of the year 1915, 286 factories, workshops and
workplaces were on the Register.
As the result of the inspection of the workrooms and workplaces
in the Borough, it was found that for the most part they
were in a satisfactory condition, and that the requirements of the
Factory and Workshops Act of 1901 were duly observed. There
was no case of overcrowding to be dealt with, but there were
15 instances in which it was necessary to require cleansing.
There were 35 occasions to require improvements in the watercloset
accommodation. In 6 cases the Abstract of the Factory
Act was not affixed in the workrooms, and the Home Office was
notified accordingly. There are altogether about 800 domestic
workrooms in the Borough in which textile material of various
kinds is being dealt with.
A complete list of all out-workers has been kept in the office;
the information has often been obtained by calling at the workshops,
for some employers still fail to realise their duty to send
in a list of out-workers twice a year, viz., in February and
August, as the Act directs.