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London County Council 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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APPEN DIX |. iii

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

Premises, Particulars, Class, &c.City of LondonBattersea.Bermondsey.Bethnal Green.Camberwell.Chelsea.Deptford.Finsbury.Fulham.Greenwich.Hackney.Hair mersmith.Hampstead.Holborn.Islington.Kensington.Lambeth.Lewisham.Paddington.Poplar.St. Marylebonc.St. Pancras.Shoreditch.Southwark.Stepney.Stoke Newington.Wandsworth.City of Westminster.Woolwich.
1. Inspections.
Factories (including factory laundries)3,63855619716739831661,1701403459751921414841511094110729166384115129428266767
Workshops (including workshop laundries)4,2321,638863,5732,6358903902,3255202082,1001,5326756892,5582,3391571,6302,9261,1643,3303982,9241,0124,7971903,2272,784241
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises)1,1791,5752211,004815720023517012119081,6932,5301,147185174401,2306591216743,90681161,9972,49191
Total (Inspections)9,0493,7695044,7443,8488937563,7308303632,1603,1912,4603,3604,1892,6751671,8983,0762,4664,0805853,9825,1335,0072486,0505,342399
2. Defects Found.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.
Want of cleanliness67477446505417140248587426273795949281977158504218621987096222615488063
Want of ventilation22333131127251213335322315376112171469
Overcrowding98537261525149742363263832633
Want of drainage of floors388441935211831163
Other nuisances1,586113163638602710447962412916543124247811431717279576648330371831,23019
Sanitary accommodationInsufficient16111114118153123244410111431816184564
Unsuitable2,88726113156534921019161004236355474135433061512317187331009820
Not separate for sexes561184246251914312958620121144
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act.
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)1
Breach of special sanitary requiremcnts for bakehouses (ss. 97-100)3765896455714132194
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork)172
Total (defects found)5,2502792471,669194633041,122971165683891322651,433338387197132680407994261,5061,3521064622,6151ll
3. Homework.
Outworkers' Lists (s. 107).60108128296128647812013812238921383184712465660
Received twice" in the year from employers1,382767217015256722862626380
Outworkers,Contractor3,65641132,80316022811437630434 3,0717692215881379306746268731,1074,263346 j829,0509eo
"corresponding there to,W kmen11,661320669}1,8504165304,59560902265612,3088925641865442,4551,3401361,652349
Received once in the year from em-ployersNumber of Lists9971811241539335914818557921913__13137168397
Outworkers.1Contractors1781112517486863241151629148179 {_3171
corresponding thereto.Workmen68822105130194066313245179215374129774776/2224
Number of addresses of outworkers received from other Councils7098253,1031352683,4782,7463601,0083862,'082,3851,133747511443115
Number of addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils15,7371811,5616481512,4721,2287983413501l,33682589872854,663148
ProsecutionsFailing to keep lists or permit inspection thereof
Failing to send lists____1_____________
Outworkers' Premises.
Number of inspections of outworkers premises7601.3846,0311,3251223315082781,6585881936371211673642981,2942,6451,0334,886773461979629
Outwork in unwhole- some premises-(s. 108)Instances331324903721__31396172639553118400
Notices served_3313249011211313481726326955312881318
Prosecutions
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)Instances__5___1962488721491623
Orders made (s. 110)
Prosecutions (ss. 109, 110)
4. Workshops.
Workshops on the Register at the end of 1912.
Bakehouses (a)217974891623369607157105623432241912149153847516775107179241278542
Laundries3,6571294012,0681492071935239330561310016719382101264,434742659212061474216
Other workshops4526531,5856731761,9312942018737274151,1712,0371,5861,2044131,2908481,718b1.1172,8713,3201,4292,772175
Total (number of workshops on the Register)3,6785607672,1571,7967262522,0104C02811,0711,0944551,2162,3781,8441,6115861,4449584,5091,9591,2183,0373,5202301,7032,899233
5. Other Matters.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories.
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)1062821165972651104197413552124623715251244
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acta but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5).Notified by H.M. Inspector45187110617714815189108317408323029049912
Reports (of action taken) sent to45872361771411518710831735815124449912
H.M. Inspector
Other311483646_9463
Underground Bakehouse3 (s. 101).
Certificates granted during 1912______1___1__
In use at the end of 1912213032266528253449125030212119575722054256513241405919476815

(a) Including bakehousw not in use during the year.
(6) Including workplaces.