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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
St Pancras 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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T append the statistical statement desired by the Factory Department of the
Home Office.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
M. E. Bibby,
Sanitary Inspector Workshops [Women).
APPENDIX.
Figures relating to Women's Workshops presented in the form desired by
the Factory Department of the Home Office.
I.—INSPECTIONS.
| Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Premises. | Inspec-tions. | Written Notices. | Prosecu-tions. |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 94 | 1 | • • |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries and Domestic Workshops) | 386 | 34 | • • |
| Work-places (Restaurant Kitchens) | 68 | 3 | • • |
| Home-workers' Premises | 183 | 1 | • • |
| 731 | 39 | • • |
II.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H. M.I. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Nuisances under the Public Health | ||||||
| Acts:— Want of Cleanliness | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 8 | 8 | .. | .. | ||
| Over-crowding | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | ||
| Want of Drainage of Floors | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | ||
| Other Nuisances | 8 | 8 | .. | .. | ||
| Sanitary | Insufficient Unsuitable or Defective Not separate | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Accom- | 12 | 12 | .. | .. | ||
| modation | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | ||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— | ||||||
| Failure as to Lists of Out-workers | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Giving Out-work to be done in premises which are— | Unwholesome | • • | .. | .. | ||
| Infected | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
| Alllowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
| 39 | 39 | • • | ||||