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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 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Factories and Workshops.

Table: TABLE XXXVIII.DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

TABLE XXXVIII.

DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1)Number. (2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses57
Workshop Laundries43
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops136
Bootmakers96
Smiths and Engineers59
Builders46
Tailors71
Motor Engineers40
Other479
Total number of workshops on Register1027

Table: TABLE XXXIX.DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

TABLE XXXIX.

DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

Particulars.Number of Defects.No. of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—*
Want of cleanliness5049—-
Want of ventilation--—-
Overcrowding33—-
Want of drainage of floors———-
Other nuisances6565—-
Sanitary accommodation: Insufficient1---
Unsuitable or defective3636—-
Not separate for sexes11—-
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101)———-
Other offences———-
(Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921)
Total156154——

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.