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104 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1936.
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 Bakehouses
54
Workshop Laundries
23
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops
102
Bootmakers
96
Smiths and Engineers
32
Builders
34
Tailors
66
Motor Engineers
60
Upholsterers ,.
24
Hairdressers
28
Other
311
Total number of workshops on Register
830
TABLE XLII.
DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND
WORKPLACES.
Particulars.
(1)
Number of Defects.
No.
of
Prosecutions.
(5)
Found.
(2)
Remedied.
(3)
Referred
to H.M.
Inspector.
(4)
Nuisances under the Public
Health Acts:—*
Want of cleanliness
7
4
—
—
Want of ventilation
—
—
—
—
Overcrowding
—
—
—
—
Want of drainage of floors
—
—
—
—
Other Nuisances
5
5
—
—
Sanitary accommodation:
Insufficient
5
5
—
—
Unsuitable or defective
13
9
—
—
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)
—
—
—
—
Total
30
23
—
—
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.