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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 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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4.—Registered Workshops.
| Workshops on the Register at the end of the year. | Number. |
|---|---|
| Ordinary Workshops | 404 |
| Workshop Laundries | 74 |
| Domestic Workshops | 71 |
| Total | 549 |
5.—Other Matters.
| Class. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act | 2 | |
| Action taken in matters referred/Notified by H.M. Inspector | 6 | |
| by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act | Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 6 |
| Other | .. | |
| Underground Bakehouses | .. | |
§ 6.—WATER SUPPLY AND WATER SERVICE.
Metropolitan Water Board.
Number of Notices as to houses from which water has been cut off:—
1.—Demolition 32
2.—Empty 75
3.— Leakage 14
4.—Non-payment of Rates 14
5.—No statement 7
6.—By request 3
145
Water Supply to Tenement Houses.—Under Part IV., § 3 (b) of the Annual
Reports for 1907 and 1908, reference was made to Section 78 of the London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907, empowering the Sanitary
Authority to require water to be supplied on the storey or one of the storeys
in which the rooms or lodgings in the separate occupation of each family are
situate in a tenement house. In the same part and section of this Annual
Report reference is made to the same subject.