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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 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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50
SECTION 5.
Factories and Bakehouses.
Particulars of inspections and other work carried out by the Factory Inspectors during 1950 are given in the following table:—
| Number of visits to— | ||||
| Factories (with mechanical power) | 3,323 | |||
| Factories (without mechanical power) | 700 | |||
| Workplaces | 604 | |||
| Bakehouses | 518 | |||
| Restaurants | 1,107 | |||
| Power laundries | 10 | |||
| Laundry receiving offices | 169 | |||
| Outworkers' premises | 1,750 | |||
| Geriatric | 157 | |||
| Scabies and vermin cases | 197 | |||
| Food control enquiries | 10 | |||
| Water sampling | 45 | |||
| Police Court | 3 | |||
| Public Health Annexe | 125 | |||
| Other visits | 323 | |||
| Total | 9,041 | |||
| Intimation Notices served relating to | Statutes under which served. | |||
| Factories Act, 1937. | Public Health (London) Act, 1936. | Food and Drugs Act, 1938. | ||
| Factories (with mechanical power) | 160 | 98 | 2 | |
| Factories (without mechanical power) | 24 | 48 | — | |
| Workplaces | 1 | 23 | — | |
| Bakehouses | — | 5 | 29 | |
| Restaurants and Canteens | — | 4 | 129 | |
| Outworkers | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 185 | 178 | 160 | |
| Statutory notices served | 11 | 28 | 11 | |
One summons was heard at Clerkenwell for the provision of separate sanitary
accommodation for the sexes, ventilation of W.C. and accumulation of rubbish.