Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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must be kept in the form and with the particulars specified below in the factory
or workshop or place from which the work is given out, and must be open for
inspection by H.M. Inspectors and the officers of the local authority; and a
copy of the list signed and dated and corrected up to that date must be forwarded
to the local authority of the district on or before the first day of February and
the first day of August in each year.
In order that the list may be correct, the name of any person newly taken
into employment should be immediately entered, and the name of any person
ceasing to be employed should be immediately struck out.
Factory, Workshop, or place from
which the work is given out.
Full Postal Address
Business
Name of Occupier
List of Persons directly employed by (a)
(b) in the business of, but outside the above
Factory, Workshop, or Place, in the classes of work specified above.
Name in full.
(1)
Whether employed as
Workman (W)
or Contractor (C).
(2)
Places of Employment,
i.e. place where the
work is
actually done.
(3)
Address.
(No entry need be made
in this column if the
entry in column (3) is a
sufficient address).
(4)
(For Factories, Workshops, or Places where the number of out-workers
employed is large, printed sheets in the prescribed form may be purchased
from Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fleet Street, E.C.,
either directly or through any Bookseller).
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
John F. J. Sykes,
Medical Officer of Health.
Reports of Inspectors.—The following are the reports made to me by the
Sanitary Inspectors of Workshops. The man Inspector has been relieved of
drainage work, and also of the inspection of effluvia businesses, offensive trades,
and smoke shafts, and when the underground bakehouse question is disposed of
he will have more time available for completing his Registers of Workshops and
Restaurant Kitchens, and for periodical inspections.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, St. Pancras,
April, 1903.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I beg to submit the following report upon the work done during the
year 1902.
Bakehouses. —The bakehouses upon the Register have been inspected regularly
in April and October and the cleansing done. Many bakehouses had to be inspected
twice or oftener before the necessary limewashing was completed. 28