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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Under the head of other workshops is included domestic workshops,
and under the head of places where food is prepared for sale
is included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, tripe, fried fish and eel
shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale.
The number of inspections of factories is not very large, as only
the sanitary arrangements of these is under the supervision of the
Sanitary Authority. In all, 381 inspections were made of 237 factories,
and 47 notices, 41 intimation and six statutory, were served.
The total number of workshops on the register was 1,649, 130 of
which were workshop laundries, 159 workshop bakehouses, and 1,360
other workshops. In all, 2,879 inspections of these were made, and
208 intimation and 19 statutory notices were served. In one case it
was necessary to prosecute for absence of water supply to the premises.
The total number of workplaces on the register was 867, and
1,449 inspections of these were made during the year, while 176
notices, 161 of which were intimation and 15 statutory, were served.
Two prosecutions were necessary for insufficient sanitary accommodation.
The total number of nuisances found during the year was 603,
while only three were notified by H.M. Inspector of Factories, compared
with 13 in 1903.
For these 458 notices were served, all of which with a few
exceptions were complied with before the close of the year. The
others were complied with in the early part of the present year (1905),
some of the notices having been served in the end of December.
Seven notices were served for breach of special sanitary requirements
of bakehouses, but these, as in former years, were for failing
to have the bakehouse cleansed at the proper time, and were all complied
with forthwith.
In all, 610 defects were found and 601 remedied, but it was only
necessary to serve 465 notices, for the reason stated in my last year's
Report, viz. that in some minor cases of overcrowding no notice was
served as the nuisance was abated at the time of inspection, and also
that one notice occasionally called attention to several nuisances.