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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 1938

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

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Factories and Workshops. 1ll

Table: TABLE XLII.DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHQPS.

TABLE XLII.

DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHQPS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.Number.
(1)(2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, are enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses50
Workshop Laundries20
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops89
Bootmakers94
Smiths and Engineers30
Builders43
Tailors62
Motor Engineers76
Upholsterers22
Hairdressers47
Other293
Total number of workshops on Register826

Table: TABLE XLIII.DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS ANDWORKPLACES.

TABLE XLIII.

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 cleanliness1211--
Want of ventilation——--
Overcrowding——--
Want of drainage of floors11--
Other Nuisances1414-—
Sanitary accommodation:
Insufficient11--
Unsuitable or defective1918--
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)----
Total4745--

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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.