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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 1934

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

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Factories and Workshops.
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Table: TABLE XLI.DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

TABLE XLI.

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, are enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses54
Workshop Laundries28
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops103
Bootmakers101
Smiths and Engineers39
Builders38
Tailors61
Motor Engineers73
Upholsterers22
Hairdressers21
Other280
Total number of workshops on Register820

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

TABLE XLII.

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 cleanliness4233—_
Want of ventilation11—_
Overcrowding11——
Want of drainage of floors———
Other Nuisances1410—_
Sanitary accommodation : Insufficient————
Unsuitable or defective1919__
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)————
Total7764——

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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.