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London County Council 1909

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Table: TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

Premises, Particulars, Class, 4c.			City of London	Battersea.	Bermondsey.	Bethnal Green, i	Camberwell.	Chelsea.	Deptford.	Finsbury.	Fulham.	Greenwich.	Hackney.	Hammersmith.	Hampstead.	Holborn.	Islington.	Kensington.	Lambeth.	Lewisham.	Paddinglon.	Poplar.	St; Marylebone	St. Pancras.	Shoreditch.	Southwark.	Stepney.	Stoke Newington.	Wandsworth.	City of Westminster.		Woolwich.
1. Inspections.
Fa00000ctories (including factory laundries)			3,938	677	37	169	252	7	109	973	77	89	51	626	73	123	447	94	26	154	210	94	13	129	192	104	76	33	817		30	55
Workshops (including workshop laundries)			5,166	1,951	63	5,415	2,717	1,063	404	1,729	723	332	2,544	1,399	663	1,100	1,820	3,313	839	1,803	2,020	1,416	2,005	1,122	3,802	1,717	4,242	176	3,366		2,975	238
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises)			744	1,236	97*	1,072	837	-*	169	609*	234	178*	_*	542	365	2,129	1,133	49*	104	392	50*	1,524	259	219	710	2,188	73*	16*	1,902		1,460	85
Total (Inspections)			9.848	3,864	197*	6.656	3,806	1,070*	682	3,311*	l,034	599*	2,595*	2.567	1,101	3,352	3,400	3,456*	969	2,349	2,280*	3,034	2,277	1,470	4,704	4,009	4,391*	225*	6,085		4,465	378
2. Defects Found.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.
Want of cleanliness			899	103	12	512	47	30	173	166	52	105	194	97	19	104	425	166	158	150	22	493	141	92	287	739	808	24	225		958	55
Want of ventilation			119	7	1	9	1	-	4	14	-	3	40	2	9	11	29	21	2	1	—	12	11	2	-	20	103	-	2		277	27
Overcrowding			18	2	—	8	4	1	1	4	3	1	17	1	14	5	9	15	6	11	2	5	2	1	—	20	79	1	3		44	1
Want of drainage of floors			1	6	1	_	11	1	_	1		6	7	16	—	—	99	26	—	2	—	—	—	1	—	14	—	—	—		61	1
Other nuisances ..			1,423	179	55	493	45	12	63	454	8	31	137	127	28	216	511	72	158	59	1	230	71	10	53	843	347	36	311		719	37
Sanitary accommodation	(Insufficient		42	13	10	10	7	—	_	33	6	6	6	3	3	6	34	20	—	1	—	2	13	8	9	19	50	1	31		44	12
	\| Unsuitable		2,343	130	17	95	47	2	57	251	13	15	121	23	9	107	603	96	288	61	12	6	17	11	43	47	99	30	155		667
	( Not separate for sexes		46	—	2	2	5	2	—	17	-	3	8	1	—	5	4U	8	6	3	1	4	11	2	11	2	13	—	12		85	3
u[fences under the factory & Workshop Act.
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)			—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97-100)			—	14	3	—	—	6	—	—	2	7	—	84	—	9	—	8	—	10	—	—	—	31	—	—	19	—	6		—	—
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork)			—	—	—	1	—	—	—	27	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5	—	—	—	—	—		—	—
Total (defects found)			4,891	454	101	1.130	167	54	298	967	84	177	530	354	82	463	1,750	432	618	298	38	752	266	163	403	l,704†	1,518	92	745		2,855	136
3. Homework.
Outworkers'Lists (s. 107).
Keceived twice in the year from employers		Number of Lists	1,416	94	78	180	150	81	84	264	28	22	384	48	126	128	616	144	34	74	146	134	134	38	103	170	246	26	152		654	22
		Outworkers C.	2,953	72	22	-	72	150	16	599	22			62	113	93	524	155	8	—	—	105	14	51	57			—	56		—
		correspond-ing thereto W.	13,115	368	729	2,926	1,493	648	515	4,570	74	174	4,395	85	289	682	3,688	851	351	208	669	2,436	1,910	174	1,650	1,356	3,732	255	612		8,364	393
Received once in the year from employers		Number of Lists	99	6	16	14	22	2	2	36	4	4	52	15	10	4	23	16	25	16	31	9	5	12	9	8	15	5	6		22	19
		Outworkers.	99	_	_	-	9	-	-	25	-	-	-	12	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4	3			—	—		—
		Corresponding thereto 1	466	19	137	159	190	3	7	278	9	21	210	11	10	13	74	21	181	34	47	54	16	62	113	25	54	22	13		146	114
		Number of addresses of outworkers received from other Councils			234	373	594	3,599	1,576	111	355	899	316	182	3,230	283	32	285	2,974	314	924	241	309	1,726	1,302	900	2,958	1,096	7,364	663	370		511	62
Number of addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils			16,193	215	291	1,463	451	550	287	4,799	36	81	2,168	110	363	486	1,204	869	274	95	426	1,292	1,420	156	1,380	739	1,529	155	334		3,402	80
Prosecutions -! t	Failing to keep lists or permit inspection thereof		_	_											_	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1		—	—
	Failing to keep lists or permit inspection thereof
	Failing to send lists		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3	—	—	—	—_	—	—_	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—
Outworkers' Premises.
Number of inspections of outworkers' premises			277	809	1,191	13,351	1,098	119	286	58	382	288	875	147	73	188	1,207	283	580	370	367	2,028	278	28	2,325	860	1,361	—	446		1,039	275
Outwork in unwhole-some premises (s. 108)		Instances	—	78	108	—	37	2	_	_	25	25	—	7	—	—	137	8	—	5	—	—	—1	—	177	—	498	—	39		392	14
		Notices served	—	76	108	—	14	2	—	—	25	25	—	7	—	—	66	8	—	5	1	—	—	—	177	—	497	—	39		437	14
		Prosecutions	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—					—			—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		2	—
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)		Instances	—	5	_	—	—	—	3	3	—	—	—	_	—	—	30	10	4	—	6	8	—	—	3	27	99	—	6		243	—
		Orders made (s. 110)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—
		Prosecutions (ss.109, 110)	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—	—		—	—	—	—	—	—	—		—	—
4. Workshops.
Workshops on the Register at the end of 1309.
Bakehouses §			28	78	97	89	159	34	73	60	69	66	110	61	35	31	241	98	214	93	65	97	78	133	73	107	172	27	140		84	58
Laundries			2,008	39	40	1,993	81	16	10	2,023	62	19	103	198	10	11	128	188	126	69	58	18	3,098	74	27	58	27	165	150		49	18
Other workshops				413	652		1,4536	448	183	166	365	153a	948	540	517	1,060	1,401	1,382	897a	466	1,004	388	a	1,642	1,199	2,294	2,604		1,367		2,691	163a
Total (number of workshops on the Register)			2,036	530	789	2,082	1,6936	498	266	2,0996	496	238a	1,161	799	562	1,102	1,770	1,668	1,237a	628	1,127	503	3,176a	1,849	1,299	2,459	2,803	192	1,657		2,824	239a
5. Other Matters. Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories.																1
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)			90	67	—	36	38	11	15	18	—	10	73	—	14	12	205	82	36	65	11	32	8	2		98	35	13	118		160	2
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5).		Notified by H.M. Inspector Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector	23	1	5	60	10	9	3	47	4	1	42	10	1	9	3	20	10	2	—	23	41	10	55	93	334	2	6		125	2
			23	—	5	60	6	5	—	47	4	1	37	10	1	9	1	12	10	2	15	23	22	10	55	14	268	2	6		125	—
Other			—	—	—	1	—	5	13	16	—	—	—	2	10	6	—	3	—	—	—	4	—	—	—	10	66	25	—		—	—
Underground Bakehouses (s.101).
Certificates granted during 1909			—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	_	_	—	_	_	_	—	—	—	—	—	8	—	l			—	—
In use at the end of 1909			23	31	32	27	63	28	24	36	50	18	50	33	22	23	99	75	72	20	58	28	78	133	43	40	58	19	47		71	17

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a Includes workplaces. „ Includes workplaces other than places where fool is prepLd. | • Excluding inspections of restaurant kitchens, etc. † Includes defect, in homeworkers' premises § Including bakehouses not in use during the year.

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Table: TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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