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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 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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71
Notices served—
Intimation 255
Statutory 100
Total number of Notices served 355
Outworkers living in the City notified to the
Corporation 118
Outworkers notified by Corporation to outside
districts2,729
Complaints—
From H.M. Factory Inspector 66
General 24
Total number of complaints 90
New workshops notified by H.M. Factory Department
114
No abstract of Act affixed, women and young
persons employed—cases notified to H.M.
Factory Inspector 14
Domestic workshops registered 16
Statutory Certificates for cleansing issued by
Medical Officer of Health 29
Cases referred to the City Solicitor 5
Summary of Sanitary Defects in Workshops remedied, 1903.
Workshop—
Walls and ceiling cleansed 90
Ventilated 26
Overcrowding abated 11
127
Drains—
Re-laid or amended 6
Ventilated 13
19
Urinals improved or renewed 14
Water supply improved 51
Refuse receptacles provided or improved 80
Water-closets—
Separate accommodation provided
for sexes 15
Additional provided for men- 1
Additional provided for
women 4
Arrangements improved—
Males 118
Female 50
168
Total improvements in relation to W.C's effected 188
General defects remedied 377
Total improvements of all kinds effected in
workshops during the year 856