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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all 683 inspections were made of 285 factories, and 50
notices, 48 intimation and two statutory, were served.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,771,
114 of which were workshop laundries, 159 workshop bakehouses,
and 1,498 other workshops.
In all 3,148 inspections of these were made, compared with
3,233 in 1906, and 2,628 in 1905, and 206 intimation and 30 statutory
notices were served.
The total number of workplaces on the Register was 935, and
1,868 inspections were made, while 126 intimation and 10 statutory
notices were served.
The total number of defects found was 545, including eight
cases in which there was a breach of special sanitary requirements
for bakehouses, compared with 558 and 19 in 1906.
To abate these nuisances 380 intimation and 42 statutory
notices were served, all of which, with the exception of 12 were
complied with at the end of the year. The 12 outstanding were
complied with, with one exception, in the first month of this year.
The one exception was a case where there was insufficient water
closet accommodation, but the occupier having reduced the number
of employees, the notice could not be insisted on.
In all 545 defects were found and 532 remedied, but only 380
intimation notices were served, as one notice frequently called
attention to several defects on the same premises.