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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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THIS TABLE WAS ISSUED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD BY REQUEST OF_THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1 9 03.
Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) † | 656 | 184 | - | |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) † | 2,025 | 709 | - | |
| Workplaces † | 854 | 102 | - | |
| Homeworkers' Premises † | 21 | 5 | - | |
| Total † | 3,556 | 1,000 | - | |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 852 | 727 | - | - | ||
| Want of ventilation | 471 | 245 | 1 | - | ||
| Overcrowding | 34 | 33 | - | - | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | - | - | - | - | ||
| Other nuisances ‡ | 1,258 | 1,545 | - | - | ||
| †Sanitary accommodations | insufficient | 24 | 17 | - | - | |
| unsuitable or defective ‡ | 1,220 | 1,374 | - | - | ||
| not separate for sexes | 66 | 51 | - | - | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(SS. 97 to 100) | 3 | 3 | - | - | ||
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107) | 376 | 214 | - | - | ||
| Giving out work to be done in Premises which are | unwholesome ( S.108) | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| infected (S.110) | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or small-pox (8. 109) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Other offences | - | - | - | - | ||
| Total | 4,306 | 4,211 | 1 | - | ||
* IncludiDg those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts,
† These figures include initial inspections and periodical re-inspections, as indicated in the body of the Report.
‡ N.B.—Defects remedied include those brought forward from last year.