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St Pancras 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: REPORT OF THE WOMAN INSPECTOR OF WORKSHOPS.To the Medical Officer of Health.Sir,—I submit the following Report upon work done by me during the year 1911:—Complaints.

REPORT OF THE WOMAN INSPECTOR OF WORKSHOPS.

To the Medical Officer of Health.

Sir,—I submit the following Report upon work done by me during the year 1911:—

Complaints.

Factories.Workshops.Total
Complaints dealt with during the year235
,, made by H.M. Inspector112
,, „ other persons—33

Table: Premises and Inspections.Including complaints and periodical inspections, the complaints being distributed according to the premises : —

Premises and Inspections.

Including complaints and periodical inspections, the complaints being distributed according to the premises : —

Premises.Number on Register, 31st Dec., 1910.Approximate Number Employed.Inspec tions.Re-inspections after Intimation Notice.Intimation Notices.Statutory Notices.Prosecutions.
Day Schools40. .16. .. .Nil.Nil.
Factory Laundries182042. .
Other Factories892,57522
Workshop Laundries743172. .. .
Other Workshops4042 930355. .
Domestic Workshops711522. .. .
Home Workshops27327324. .. .
Restaurant Kitchen158337. .. .. .
Other Duties. .. .1,845. .. .
Total6,7881,92852.. ..

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It has not been possible to give much attention to the in-pection of industrial
premises during the year 1911. It is hoped that our numerous connections
with the general life of the Borough may induce persons having knowledge of
serious defects in such premises to bring the facts to our notice for, with the
ever increasing pressure of general health work now imposed upon us, both by
legislation and by public opinion, itis no longer possible to attempt the routine
inspection of all suitable premises in the old way.
Being responsible for a mass of work which no one person could perform
without assistance, I have endeavoured rather to act in the spirit of the
ideas now influencing public work than to attempt the impossible task of