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204 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Unsound Food.
21½ cwt. turnip tops, 234 lbs. tomatoes, 37 lbs. broad beans,
17 boxes pears, three bags walnuts, 23 lbs. skate, one box cods roes,
one box flat fish, 10 boxes kippers, one box hake, four boxes
haddock, one box mixed fish, one trunk whiting, one carcase and
130 lbs. beef, one cwt. sugar, one case eggs and six livers were
destroyed at the request of the owners and the usual certificates
granted.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
There has been a decrease in the total number of inspections
of the above, compared with 1913, but an examination of the Tables
will show that a very large amount of work has been carried out
by both the male and female inspectors.
I have also this year visited a large number of these premises
and am able to report that they are all in a very satisfactory condition.
With regard to outworkers it has again been found necessary,
as a matter of routine, to forward a warning letter to the majority
of employers.
The Tables which follow are similar to those used in previous
Reports, and the whole of the work done by both male and female
Inspectors is there shown in a concise form.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,741,
including 116 retail bakehouses, 129 workshop laundries, 273
dressmakers' and milliners' premises, and 1,223 other workshops,
but not including 463 factories, 1,218 workplaces, and 351 outworkers'
premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there were on the Register at the end of 1914,
3,774 premises, compared with 3,774 in 1913. 3.629 in 1912, and
3,470 in 1911.