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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Factories and Workshops.
I am again able to report that there has been an increase in
the amount of work carried out during the year, and this increase
would have been greater had it not been for the illness of some of
the staff. No difficulties have been experienced during the year in
carrying out the Act, although in regard to the lists of outworkers
it was necessary to issue a circular to a large proportion of those
employing outworkers, requesting the lists to be forwarded.
The Tables which follow are similar to those used in previous
Reports, and the whole of the work done by both male and female
Inspectors is there summarised in a concise form.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,771,
including 159 retail bakehouses, 114 workshop laundries, and
1,498 other workshops, but not including 285 factories, 935 workplaces,
and 290 outworkers' premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there were on the Register at the end of 1907
3,281 premises, compared with 3,096 in 1906, 3,045 in 1905, 2,987
in 1904, and 2,676 in 1903.
The total number of inspections made during the year was
6,048, compared with 5,997 in 1906, 4,933 in 1905, and 4,946 in
1904.
The total number of notices served was 453, 411 intimation
and 42 statutory, compared with 427 in 1906, 462 in 1905, and 465
in 1904.
There were four prosecutions under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, three for the emission of black smoke, and
one for sanitary defects.
Under the head of other workshops are included domestic
workshops, and under the head of places where food is prepared
for sale are included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, tripe,
fried fish and eel shops, and other places where food is prepared
for sale.