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2Q5
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The next Table shows in detail the work of the Inspectors in
factories and workshops where males are chiefly employed.
The Table shows the work done in each sub-district and is
grouped under five divisions: (1) factories, (2) workshops, (3)
domestic workshops, (4) workplaces, and (5) outworkers' premises.
The total number of inspections was 3,175, compared with
.2,263 in 1908, 2,408 in 1907 and 1,964 in 1906, and re-inspections
1,184, compared with 1,394, 1,298 and 1,649.
961 of the inspections and 159 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 508 and 10 in Putney, 655 and 304 in Streatham, 242
and 45 in Tooting-, and 809 and 669 in Wandsworth.
Six workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, and 22 were reported to this Council by H.M.
Inspector.
In all the workshops under the supervision of the male
Inspectors only three cases of overcrowding' were discovered, and
these were at once remedied.