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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

City of London 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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The following will give some indication of the work performed by your
Workshop Inspectors during the year:—

Table: Summary of Work under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, for the year 1902.

Summary of Work under the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, for the year 1902.

Totals.
Workshops and Workplaces (not including Kitchens) inspected, measured, &c.341
Ditto ditto re-inspections1,599
Bakehouses, re-inspections94
Ditto newly established1
Ditto (Factories) notified to H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories2
Domestic Workshops notified to H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories2
Workplaces (Kitchens) inspected155
Ditto ditto re-inspections341
Workers employed:—Males, 1,298; Females, 1,931 ; Outworkers, 3,7526,981
Outworkers notified or discovered living in the City17
Ditto notified by Corporation to outside districts3,752
Complaints received from H.M. Factory Inspector54
General complaints received34
Abstract not affixed notified to H.M. Chief Inspector of Factories1
New Workshops notified by H.M. Factory Inspector180
Certificates for Cleansing issued by the Medical Officer of Health49
Defects remedied(W.C's provided or improved193
Drains re-laid or amended10Total number of defects remedied, 595.
Ventilation of Workrooms, &c., improved13
Overcrowding abated5
Rooms, &c., cleansed170
General defects remedied204
Notices served (Intimation 292, Statutory 180)......472
Legal proceedings ordered by the Sanitary Committee......5

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WOMAN SANITARY INSPECTOR.
The appointment of a Woman Sanitary Inspector in February last has
been amply justified, and I would especially call attention to Miss Safford's
remarks with reference to sanitary accommodation in offices, quoted on
page 95.

Table: SUMMARY FOR THE NINE MONTHS—APRIL TO DECEMBER, 1902.

SUMMARY FOR THE NINE MONTHS—APRIL TO DECEMBER, 1902.

FactoriesInspections1Total number of inspections, 697.
Re-inspections1
WorkshopsInspections140
Re-inspections34
WorkplacesInspections390
Re-inspections131
Notices ServedIntimation184Total number of Notices served, 219.
Statutory35

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In addition to the above, the Ladies' Waiting Rooms at all the Railway
Stations in the City were inspected in June, and again in December.