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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: (I) factories, (2) workshops, (3)
domestic workshops, (4) workplaces, and (5) outworkers' premises.
The total number of inspections was 4,147, compared with
3,020 in 1911, 2,768 in 1910, and 3,175 in 1909, and of re-inspections
656, compared with 1,141,1,534 and 1,184, a total of 4,803 compared
with 4,161 in the previous year.
1,252 of the inspections and 92 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 521 and 40 in Putney, 853 and 232 in Streatham, 304
and 68 in Tooting, and 1,217 and 224 in Wandsworth.
Three workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, and 25 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 one case of overcrowding was discovered, and it
was at once remedied.
In 92 of these factories, workshops and workplaces the sanitary
conveniences were found defective, in five they were insufficient, and
in one they were not separate for the sexes. In 135 the workrooms
were in a dirty condition, and in 187 other nuisances were found.
For these 324 intimation and 16 statutory notices were served, and
with the exception of 10 intimation and three statutory notices,
were complied with. These notices were complied with in the early
part of the year.
In one case, for the absence of a proper ashpit, legal proceedings,
were necessary to enforce the notice.