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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 1926

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

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68 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

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

TABLE XXXVI.

DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.Number.
(1)(2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses49
Workshop Laundries42
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops134
Bootmakers94
Smiths and Engineers57
Builders50
Tailors63
Motor Engineers44
Upholsterers27
Hairdressers27
Other404
Total number of workshops on Register991

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

TABLE XXXVII 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 cleanliness3937--
Want of ventilation----
Overcrowding11--
Want of drainage of floors----
Other Nuisances6460--
Sanitary accommodation: Insufficient11--
Unsuitable or defective4443--
Not separate for sexes----
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)----
Total149142--

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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.