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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
| CLASS OF WORKS. | Number of Places | Number of Inspections, 1917. | Number of Notices. | Number of Prosecutions, 1917* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1916. | Added in 1917. | Removed in 1917. | On Register at end of 1917. | Intimation, 1917. | Statutory, 9'7- | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | ||||
| Premises | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 87 | 2 | 85 | 345 | 167 | 5 | ||||
| Factory Bakehouses | 39 | 8 | 4 | 43 | 64 | 189 | 2 | ||||
| Other Factories | 356 | 43 | 12 | 387 | 1,248 | 696 | 48 | 2 | |||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 117 | 21 | 96 | 292 | '57 | 5 | ||||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 108 | 16 | 92 | 92 | 547 | 8 | |||||
| Other Workshops | 1,316 | 49 | 102 | 1,263 | 1,710 | 1,281 | 44 | 1 | |||
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 567 | 13 | 543 | 600 | 596 | 39 | 1 | |||
| Workplaces other than the above | 529 | 46 | 85 | 490 | 701 | 563 | 21 | 1 | |||
| Home-workers' premises | 401 | 71 | 411 | 411 | 445 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 3.520 | 230 | 340 | 3.410 | 5,463 | 4,641 | 181 | ||||