Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
TABLE LXXX11.
CLASS OF WORKS. | Number of Places | Number of Inspections, 1909. | Number of Notices. | Number of Prosecutions, 1909. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
On Register at end of 1908. | Added in 1909. | Removed in 1909. | On Register at end 01 1909. | Intimation, 1909. | .Statutory, 1909. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | ||||
Premises | Rooms. | ||||||||||
Factories | Factory Laundries | 88 | 7 | 2 | 93 | 372 | 197 | 11 | ... | ... | ... |
Factory Bakehouses | 13 | 1 | ... | 14 | 27 | 45 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | |
Other Factories | 201 | 52 | 9 | 244 | 827 | 575 | 57 | 5 | ... | ... | |
Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 149 | 18 | 17 | 150 | 450 | 393 | 34 | ... | ... | ... |
Workshop Bakehouses | 146 | 1 | 7 | 140 | 140 | 389 | 5 | 1 | ... | ... | |
Other Workshops | 1323 | 227 | 183 | 1367 | 1716 | 2584 | 237 | 22 | 1 | 1 | |
Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 485 | 55 | 51 | 489 | 525 | 720 | 113 | 4 | ... | ... |
Workplaces other than the above | 523 | 87 | 114 | 496 | 736 | 1182 | 51 | 15 | ... | 1 | |
Home-workers premises | 331 | 99 | 118 | 312 | 312 | 446 | 40 | 1 | ... | ... | |
Total | 3259 | 547 | 501 | 3305 | 5105 | 6531 | 549 | 48 | 1 | 2 |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and B, of the Factory and
Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
The table which follows and which relates to Home Work is
similar to the one in last year's Report.
There has been an increase of four in the number of lists sent
in twice a year, and a decrease of nine in the number sent in once
a year.