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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 1907
[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 O 7.
Including Inspections made by Sanitaky Inspectors or Inspectors op Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 2,387 | 153 | _ |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) ... | 4,087 | 905 | 1 |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | 887 | 186 | — |
| Total | 7,361 | 1,244 | |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 944 | 749 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 182 | 124 | — | It | |
| Overcrowding | 43 | 32 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors ... | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances ... | 1,938 | 1,743 | — | It | |
| fSanitary accommodation < | insufficient | 29 | 8 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 1,865 | 1,914 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes... | 72 | 48 | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirementsforbakehouses(SS. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Keport) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total ••• ... ... | 5,073 « | 4,618 | — | 1 | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public
Health Acts.
■(• For districts not in London state here whether Section 22 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1890, has been
adopted by the District Council ; and if so what standard of sufficiency and suitability of sanitary accommodation for
persons employed in factories and workshops has been enforced,
t Two defects in same Workshop. One prosecution only.