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142 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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 1,649,
including 114 retail bakehouses, 125 workshop laundries, 253
dressmakers' and milliners' premises, and 1,157 other workshops,
but not including 478 factories, 1,158 workplaces, and 511 outworkers'
premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there were on the Register at the end of 1915
3,796 premises, compared with 3,774 in 1914, 3,774 in 1913, and
3,629 in 1912.
The total number of notices served was 297, 291 intimation
and six statutory, compared with 364 in 1914, 454 in 1913, and 402
in 1912.
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 837 inspections were made of 478 factories, and 60 notices,
57 intimation and three statutory, were served.
The total number of the workshops on the Register was 1,649,
125 of which were workshop laundries, 114 workshop bakehouses,
and 1,410 other workshops.
In all 2,627 inspections of these were made, compared with
2,649 in 1914. in 1913, and 3,227 in 1912, and 107 intimation
and two statutory notices were served.