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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
This circular letter in all cases was successful in its object, and it
was not necessary to take further steps. In nearly all the cases
the official forms are now used, thus facilitating the clerical work
and filing of the documents.
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 shown in a concise form.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,707,
including 136 retail bakehouses, 153 workshop laundries, 302
dressmakers' and milliners' premises, and 1,116 other workshops,
but not including 360 factories, 1,039 workplaces, and 314 outworkers'
premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there were on the Register at the end of 1910
3,420 premises, compared with 3,305 in 1909, 3,347 in 1908, 3,281
in 1907, 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
6,387, compared with 6,531 in 1909, 5,801 in 1908, 6,048 in 1907,
5,997 in 1906, 4,933 in 1905, and 4,946 in 1904.
The total number of notices served was 580, 544 intimation
and 36 statutory, compared with 597 in 1909, 434 in 1908, 453 in
1907, 427 in 1906, 462 in 1905, and 465 in 1904.
There were only two prosecutions under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, both 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.