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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
There were two prosecutions under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, for sanitary defects, and one under the
Factory and Workshop Act for failing to keep a register of
outworkers.
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.
In all 817 inspections were made of 351 factories, and 74
notices, 69 intimation and five statutory, were served.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,657,
150 of which were workshop laundries, 140 workshop bakehouses,
and 1,367 other workshops.
In all 3,366 inspections of these were made, compared with
3,130 in 1908, 3,148 in 1907, 3,233 in 1906, and 2,628 in 1905, and
276 intimation and 23 statutory notices were served.
The total number of workplaces on the Register was 985, and
1,902 inspections were made, while 163 intimation and 20 statutory
notices were served.
The total number of defects found was 745, including six
cases in which there was a breach of special sanitary requirements
for bakehouses, compared with 609 and 16 in 1908.
To abate these nuisances 549 intimation and 48 statutory
notices were served, all of which, with the exception of 30, were
complied with at the end of the year. The 30 outstanding were
complied with, with two exceptions, in the first month of this year.
These two exceptions were two laundries which were given up
shortly after service of the notices.
In all, 745 defects were found and 720 remedied, but only 549
intimation notices were served, as one notice frequently called
attention to several defects on the same premises.