London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1920
[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, 1920. | Number of Notices. | Number of Prosecutions, 1920. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Register at end of 1919. | Added in 1920. | Removed in 1920. | On Register at end of 1920. | Intimation, 1920. | Statutory, 1920. | Under Factory Act. | Under Public Health Act. | ||||
| Premises | Rooms. | ||||||||||
| Factories | Factory Laundries | 75 | 4 | 3 | 76 | 302 | 124 | 1 | |||
| Factory Bakehouses | 54 | 5 | ... | 59 | 79 | 140 | 3 | ||||
| Other Factories | 431 | 37 | 33 | 435 | 1387 | 718 | 46 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Workshops | Workshop Laundries | 87 | 2 | 18 | 71 | 219 | 130 | 3 | |||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 82 | 3 | 79 | 79 | 281 | 4 | |||||
| Other Workshops | 1229 | 70 | 88 | 1211 | 1639 | 1321 | 85 | 4 | |||
| Workplaces | Places where Food is prepared for Sale | 533 | 26 | 4 | 555 | 608 | 381 | 35 | 1 | ||
| Workplaces other than the above | 459 | 38 | 57 | 440 | 624 | 681 | 23 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Home-workers | premises | 449 | 111 | 87 | 473 | 473 | 582 | 31 | |||
| Total | 3,399 | 293 | 293 | 3,399 | 5,410 | 4 358 | 231 | 10 | 2 | ||