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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 233
176 inspections were made of factories, 905 of workshops,
65 of domestic workshops, 383 of workplaces, and 211 of outworkers'
premises, while 172 premises were visited for inquiry
and no workroom found.
There were only three cases of overcrowding discovered, compared
with one in 1910, two in 1909, four in 1908, four in 1907,
five in 1906, 12 in 1905, and 17 in 1904, and these were at once
abated. 17 were found to be in a dirty condition, compared with
30 in 1910, 56 in 1909, 25 in 1908, and 66 in 1907.
In one workshop inspected during the year there was no
separate water closets for the sexes, and in six factories and four
workshops the water closets were defective.
Other nuisances were discovered in two factories, 12 workshops,
seven workplaces, and one outworker's premises, and these were
all abated.
It was only necessary to serve 45 intimation notices and one
statutory notice, and these were all complied with.
27 workshops and one domestic workshop where females
were employed were reported to H.M. Inspector of Workshops,
and 46 were reported to this Council by H.M. Inspector.
Only nine of the workshops (three in Clapham, five in Streatham,
and one in Wandsworth), reported by H.M. Inspector were
unknown to the Sanitary Inspectors. The other 37 had been
previously reported to H.M. Inspector, or were already on the
Register.