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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 229
The rext 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 3,020, compared with
2,768 in 1910, 3,175 in 1909, 2,263 in 1908, 2,408 in 1907 and 1,964
in 1906, and re-inspections 1,141, compared with 1,534, I»I84,
1,394, and 1,649, a total of 4,161, compared with 4,302 in
the previous year.
979 of the inspections and 212 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 248 and 166 in Putney, 678 and 234 in Streatham, 241
and 78 in Tooting, and 874 and 451 in Wandsworth.
No workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, but 26 were reported to this Council by H.M.
Inspector, the majority of these having been previously entered on
the Register.
In all the workshops under the supervision of the male
Inspectors only two cases of overcrowding were discovered, and
these were at once remedied.
In 91 of these factories and workshops the sanitary conveniences
were found defective, in 10 they were insufficient, and
in two they were not separate for the sexes. In 223 the workrooms
were in a dirty condition, and in 245 other nuisances were found.
For these 384 intimation and 32 statutory notices were served, and
with the exception of 15 intimation and two statutory notices
were complied with. These 15 intimation and two statutory
notices were complied with in the early part of the year.
No legal proceedings were necessary to enforce any of the
above notices.