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150 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: (i) factories, (2) workshops, (3)
domestic workshops, (4) workplaces, and (5) outworkers' premises.
The total number of inspections was 2,721, compared with
3,031 in 1914, 3,510 in 1913, and 4,147 in 1912, and of re-inspections
758, compared with 745, 732 and 656, a total of 3,479 compared
with 3,776 in the previous year.
1,094 of the inspections and 158 of the re-inspections were in
Clapham, 229 and 206 in Putney, 601 and 141 in Streatham, 103.
and 35 in Tooting, and 694 and 218 in W andsworth.
No workshops where males were employed were notified to
H.M. Inspector, but eight were reported to this Council by H.M.
Inspector, all with the exception of two of these having been
previously entered on the Register.
In five of the workrooms under the supervision of the male
Inspectors cases of overcrowding were discovered, and these
conditions were remedied.
In 67 of these factories, workshops and workplaces the sanitary
conveniences were found defective, in three they were insufficient,
and in two they were unsuitable or not separate for the sexes. In
113 the workrooms were in a dirty condition, in one they were
insufficiently ventilated, and in 136 other nuisances were found.
For these 253 intimation and six statutory notices were served, and
with the exception of two statutory notices, were complied with.