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242 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: (1) factories, (2) workshops, (3)
domestic workshops, (4) workplaces, and (5) outworkers' premises.
The total number of inspections was 3,510, compared with
4,147 in 1912, 3,020 in 1911, and 2,768 in 1910, and of re-inspections
732, compared with 656, 1,141, and 1,534, a total of 4,242 compared
with 4,803 in the previous year.
1,020 of the inspections and 179 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 337 and 70 in Putney, 824 and 227 in Streatham, 275
and 42 in Tooting, and 1,045 and 214 in Wandsworth.
No workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, but nine 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
no case of overcrowding was discovered.
In 76 of these factories, workshops and workplaces the sanitary
conveniences were found defective, in seven they were insufficient,
and in four they were unsuitable or not separate for the sexes. In
178 the workrooms were in a dirty condition, in four they were
insufficiently ventilated, and in 222 other nuisances were found.
For these 379 intimation and 18 statutory notices were served, and
with the exception of three intimation and two statutory notices,
were complied with. These notices were complied with in the early
part of the year.
In two cases, one for the absence of a proper water supply and
another for a defective water closet, legal proceedings were necessary
to enforce the notice.