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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 205
The total number of notices served was 364, 354 intimation
and 10 statutory, compared with 454 in 1913, 402 in 1912, and 462
in 1911.
There were no prosecutions under the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891, during the year.
Under the head of other workshops are included domestic
workshops, and under the head of places where food is prepared
for sale are included the kitchens of hotels, restaurants, tripe, fried
fish and eel shops, and other places where food is prepared for sale.
In all 785 inspections were made of 463 factories, and 62 notices
60 intimation and two statutory, were served.
The total number of the workshops on the Register was 1,741,
129 of which were workshop laundries, 116 workshop bakehouses,
and 1,467 other workshops.
In all 2,649 inspections of these were made, compared with
3,185 in 1913, 3,227 in 1912, and 3,059 in 1911, and 141 intimation
and five statutory notices were served.
The total number of workplaces on the Register was 1,218
and 1,745 inspections were made, while 132 intimation notices were
served, but only three statutory notices were necessary.
The total number of defects found was 524, including 22 cases
in which there was a breach of special sanitary requirements for
bakehouses, compared with 539 and 16 in 1913.
To abate these nuisances, 343 notices, 333 intimation and 10
statutory were served, all of which, with the exception of nine were
complied with at the end of the year. The nine outstanding were
complied with in the first month of this year.
Excluding outworkers' premises 524 defects were found and
515 remedied, but only 333 intimation notices were served, as one
notice frequently called attention to several defects on the same
premises,