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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
Wandsworth 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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152
Report of the Medical Officer of Health,
OTHER MATTERS.
| Class. | Number. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories:— | ||||||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 79 | |||||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health-Acts, but" not under the Factory Act (S. 5) | Notified by H.m. Inspector | 3 | ||||
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors | 3 | |||||
| Other | ||||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | ||||||
| In use during 1903. | 61 | |||||
| Certificates granted | in 1903 | 48 | ||||
| in1904 | ||||||
| In use at the end of 1904 | 48 | |||||
| Number of | ||||||
| Homework:— | Lists. | Out-workers. | ||||
| 36 | 375 | |||||
| Addresses of outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 249 | ||||
| received from other Authorities | 96 | |||||
| Wearing Apparel. | Other. | |||||
| Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers' premises | 12 | |||||
| Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | ||||||
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1904:— | ||||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | Workshop Bakehouses | 159 | ||||
| „ Laundries | 130 | |||||
| Dressmakers' and Milliners' workshops | 310 | |||||
| Bootmakers' workshops | 126 | |||||
| Smiths' „ | 54 | |||||
| Builders' „ | 53 | |||||
| Tailors' „ | 30 | |||||
| Other „ | 787 | |||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 1,649 | |||||