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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: (1) factories, (2) workshops, (3)
domestic workshops, (4) workplaces, and (5) outworkers' premises.
The total number of inspections was 3,031, compared with
3,510 in 1913, 4,147 in 1912, and 3,020 in 1911, and of re-inspections
745, compared with 732 in 1913, 656, and 1,141, a total of 3,776
compared with 4,242 in the previous year.
1,040 of the inspections and 174 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 408 and 75 in Putney, 630 and 197 in Streatham, 157
and 51 in Tooting, and 796 and 248 in Wandsworth.
No workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, but 26 were reported to this Council by H.M.
Inspector, all with the exception of five 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 75 of these factories, workshops and workplaces the sanitary
conveniences were found defective, in four they were insufficient,
and in three they were unsuitable or not separate for the sexes. In
140 the workrooms were in a dirty condition, in four they were
insufficiently ventilated, and in 217 other nuisances were found.
For these 307 intimation and 10 statutory notices were served, and
with the exception of nine intimation notices, were complied with.
These notices were complied with in the early part of the year.