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 London County Council]
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TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT.
Premises, Particulars, Class, &c. | Paddington. | Kensington. | Hammersmith. | Fulham. | Chelsea. | Westminster. | St. Marylebone. | Hampstead. | St. Pancras. | Islington. | Stoke Newington. | Hackney. | Holborn. | Finsbury. | City of Londcn. | Shoreditch. | Bethnal-green. | Stepney. | Poplar. | Southwaik. | Bermondsey. | Lambeth. | Battersea. | Wandbworth. | Camberwell | Deptford: | Greenwich. | Lewisham. | Woolwich. | |||
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Inspection. Factories (including factory laundries, | 346 | 162 | 278 | 102 | 11 | - | 4 | 128 | 98 | 290 | 16 | 47 | 1,189 | 917 | 160 | 53 | 31 | 15 | 214 | 93 | 47 | 6 | 705 | 381 | 128 | 46 | 126 | 22 | ||||
Workshops (including workshop laundries) | 3,223 | 3,935 | 1,772 | 401 | 995 | 2,039 | 1,046 | 1,547 | 589 | 5,1831 | 178 | 1,969 | 2,153 | 4,505 | 4,681 | 3,037 | 2,382 | 868 | 1,529 | 264 | 169 | 3,008 | 2,87 | 3,168 | 752 | 377 | 814 | 107 | ||||
Workplaces | 53 | 22 | 264 | 380 | 182 | 578 | 810 | 1,272 | 25 | 1,030 | 8 | 1,046 | 708 | 1,558 | 539 | 17 | 55 | 1,125 | 376 | 645 | 1,449 | 233 | 79 | 43 | 120 | 4 | ||||||
Homeworkers' premises | 269 | 73 | 102 | 101 | 94 | 1,543 | 823 | 72 | 77 | 960 | 117 | 798 | 125 | 489 | 4 | 651 | 1,125 | - | 1,253 | 654 | 274 | 277 | 343 | 237 | 784 | 359 | 141 | 55 | 3537 | |||
Total | 3,891 | 4,192 | 2,416 | 984 | 1,282 | 4,160 | 3,283 | 3,019 | 789 | 7,463 | 311 | 2,822 | 2,360 | 4,267 | 6,227 | 5,388 | 4,732 | 2,414 | 2,390 | 3,401 | 931 | 452 | 4,701 | 4,946 | 4,308 | 1,236 | 687 | 989 | 529 | |||
Defects Found. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Want of cleanliness | 118 | 368 | 144 | 148 | 10 | 171 | 119 | 74 | 19 | 427 | 38 | 350 | 128 | 128 | 385 | 324 | 396 | 547 | 210 | 571 | 180 | 186 | 192 | 192 | 64 | 93 | 48 | 98 | 24 | |||
Want of ventilation | 10 | 52 | - | 5 | 3 | 88 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 7 | - | 62 | 4 | 42 | 250 | 2 | 14 | 60 | 2 | 90 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 6 | |||
Overcrowding | 16 | 24 | - | 8 | 6 | 48 | 9 | 10 | - | 4 | 6 | 27 | 12 | 7 | 72 | 7 | 7 | 66 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 4 | - | 1 | 3 | |||
Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 23 | 4 | 2 | - | 20 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 10 | 23 | - | 31 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | ||||
Other nuisances | 78 | 295 | 66 | - | - | 70 | 55 | 294 | 36 | 488 | 480 | 27 | 277 | 1,564 | 67 | 311 | 179 | 139 | 975 | 213 | 63 | 350 | 247 | 74 | 54 | 34 | 45 | 11 | ||||
Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 2 | 18 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 56 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 57 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 39 | 20 | 39 | 15 | - | 9 | 21 | 17 | 13 | 5 | - | 1 | |||
unsuitable or defective | 36 | 133 | 73 | 1 | 3 | 445 | 44 | 13 | 13 | 208 | 30 | 144 | 48 | 451 | 1,053 | 37 | 143 | 43 | 8 | 112 | 81 | 138 | 175 | 98 | 48 | 14 | 6 | 47 | ||||
not separate for . sexes | 4 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 67 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 83 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | - | 2 | |||||
Total | 265 | 926 | 300 | 174 | 25 | 965 | 253 | 428 | 85 | 1,158 | 79 | 1,078 | 228 | 969 | 3,420 | 457 | 880 | 974 | 393 | 1,828 | 536 | 400 | 786 | 603 | 222 | 85 | 102 | 194 | 46 | |||
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 8 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | |||||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97-100) | 1 | 11 | 67 | 2 | - | 2 | 32 | 1 | - | - | - | 35 | - | - | 4 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 68 | 7 | 89 | - | - | |||||
Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | - | 59 | - | 32 | - | 20 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 140 | 106 | 61 | 8 | 18 | 11 | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||
Giving out work to be done in premises which are | 1 unwholesome f (S.108) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
1 infected (S. 110) | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||
Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109). | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||
Other offences | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 120 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | |||||
Total (all defects found) | 271 | 1,005 | 367 | 209 | 25 | 987 | 289 | 436 | 89 | 1,158 | 79 | 1,253 | 336 | 1,152 | 3,440 | 475 | 896 | 976 | 403 | 1,828 | 536 | 400 | 857 | 610 | 311 | 188 | 16 | 194 | 46 | |||
Other Matters. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 05 | 57 | - | 80 | 16 | 30 | 39 | 54 | 20 | 130 | 2 | 73 | 48 | 85 | 44 | 1 | 60 | 24 | 33 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 69 | 79 | 31 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 1 | |||
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the P. H. Acts but not under the Factory Act (S. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 6 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 9 | - | 43 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 86 | 7 | 19 | 31 | 122 | 18 | 166 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors | 7 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 11 | - | 38 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 6 | - | 19 | 31 | 16 | 18 | (spl.) 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Other | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 28 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 35 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 11 | - | - | 3 | - | - | 19 | 50 | - | ||||
Underground Bakehouses (S. 101). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In use during 1903 | 65 | 95 | 42 | 55 | .. | 96 | 27 | 136 | 115 | 20 | 32 | 46 | 44 | 46 | 33 | 63 | 39 | 42 | 33 | 79 | 49 | 61 | 72 | 34 | 33 | 23 | 24 | |||||
Certificates granted in 1903 | 29 | 10 | 12 | 32 | - | - | 77 | 11 | - | 69 | 20 | 7 | 33 | 19 | 46 | 9 | 63 | 33 | - | 33 | 72 | 29 | 48 | 27 | 27 | 2??? | 24 | |||||
,, ,, in 1904 | 32 | 67 | 26 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 93 | 33 | - | 20 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 18 | - | 3 | 42 | - | - | 4 | - | 39 | 1 | 18 | - | |||||
In use at the end of 1904 | 62 | 78 | 38 | 50 | 43 | 79 | 86 | 23 | 128 | 104 | 20 | 50 | 27 | 40 | 27 | 46 | 28 | 63 | 36 | 41 | 33 | 72 | 33 | 48 | 66 | 28 | 20 | 23 | 24 | |||
Homework. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number of lists received | S. 101 | 83 | 95 | 58 | 29 | 53 | 491 | 112 | 114 | 47 | 201 | 18 | 403 | 116 | 168 | 272 | 42 | 35 | 531 | 63 | 147 | 24 | 2 | 10 | 36 | 373 | 95 | 66 | 135 | 81 | ||
Number of outworkers | 414 | 599 | 124 | 94 | 548 | 7,268 | 1,315 | 341 | 290 | 1,759 | 274 | 3,476 | 739 | 4,089 | 3,457 | 791 | 645 | 2,464 | 1,352 | 1,188 | 363 | 17 | 174 | 375 | 1,407 | 204 | 194 | 265 | 353 | |||
Addresses of outworkers | Forwarded to other authorities | 253 | 415 | 34 | 49 | 408 | 734 | 69 | 277 | 152 | 886 | 206 | 1,579 | 119 | 3,891 | 3,334 | 601 | 298 | 432 | 497 | 693 | 169 | - | 37 | 249 | 613 | 314 | 29 | 132 | 38 | ||
Received from other authorities | 156 | 151 | 124 | 158 | 67 | 341 | 76 | 14 | 362 | 875 | 200 | 1,228 | 68 | 152 | 123 | 680 | 1,073 | 1,375 | 563 | 394 | 283 | 277 | 175 | 96 | 311 | 280 | 122 | 59 | 41 | |||
Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||
Cases of infectious disease notified in homeworkers' premises | 4 | 9 | - | - | - | 15 | 1 | 3 | 12 | - | 67 | - | 9 | - | 45 | - | 19 | - | - | - | 12 | 34 | 4 | |||||||||
Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||
Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1904. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bakehouses | 71 | 97 | 58 | 69 | 43 | 97 | 86 | 36 | 165 | 255 | 28 | 111 | 33 | 61 | 34 | 76 | 84 | 180 | 78 | 108 | 105 | 207 | 89 | 159 | 169 | 77 | 72 | 92 | 62 | |||
Laundries | 143 | 255 | - | 60 | 35 | 30 | 6 | 86 | 171 | 116 | 19 | 24 | 3,030 | 32 | 33 | 2,106 | 22 | 74 | 476 | 1,139 | 41 | 130 | 86 | 12 | 37 | 123 | 17 | |||||
Other Workshops | 1,117 | 1,189 | 836 | 251 | 543 | 2,357 | 2,612 | 631 | 434 | 1,852 | 311 | 922 | 746 | 1,721 | 1,101 | 1,217 | 272 | 1,414 | 363 | 1,360 | 1,221 | 1???6 | 212 | 373 | 162 | |||||||
Total Workshop | 1,331 | 1,541 | 894 | 380 | 621 | 2,484 | 2,698 | 673 | 685 | 2,278 | 339 | 1,149 | 798 | 1,806 | 3,064 | 1,209 | 1,334 | 2,286 | 372 | 1,596 | 581 | 1,346 | 493 | 1,649 | 1,476 | 255 | 321 | 588 | 241 |