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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Tables which follow summarises the work done during
the year by the female Sanitary Inspectors.
The total number of premises inspected was 1,837 (403 in
Clapham, 240 in Putney, 465 in Streatham, 181 in Tooting, and
518 in Wandsworth).
173 inspections were made of factories, 1,000 of workshops,
66 of domestic workshops, 373 of workplaces, and 225 of outworkers'
premises, while 236 premises were visited for inquiry
and no workroom found.
There was only one case of overcrowding discovered, compared
with two in 1909, four in 1908, four in 1907, five in 1906,
12 in 1905, and 17 in 1904, and this was at once abated. 30 were
found to be in a dirty condition, compared with 56 in 1909, 25 in
1908, and 66 in 1907.
In every workshop inspected during the year there were
separate water closets for the sexes, but in five factories and four
workshops the water closets were defective.
Other nuisances were discovered in four factories, 25 workshops,
one domestic workshop, seven workplaces, and five outworkers'
premises, and these were all abated, with three exceptions,
and these were abated in January of the current year.
It was only necessary to serve 76 intimation notices, and
these were all complied with with the exception of three, one in
Streatham and two in Tooting. These notices were complied with
.in the beginning of the current year. It was necessary to serve
four statutory notices during the year, two in Clapham and two in
Putney, and these were all complied with.
49 workshops and seven domestic workshops where females
were employed were reported to H.M. Inspectors of Workshops,
and 83 were reported to this Council by H.M. Inspector.
Only 11 of the workshops (two in Clapham, seven in Streatham,
one in Tooting, and one in Wandsworth), reported by H.M.
Inspector were unknown to the Sanitary Inspectors. The other
72 had been previously reported to H.M. Inspector, or were
already on the Register.