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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 1921

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

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Men Inspectors.Women InspectorsTotals.
Special Inspector Gathercole.East District Inspector Robinson.West District Inspector Fowler.West District MissEast District M iss Wilkinson.
ACTION TAKEN.
Matters referred to H.M. Inspector—
Want of Cleanliness....325
Want of Ventilation....1l........2
Overcrowding........................
Want of Drainage of Floors........................
Failure to affix Abstract....4225........67
Other Nuisances....12........3
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector—
Notified by H.M. Inspectorl2520........46
Reports sent to H.M. Inspectorl2920........50
Other matters........................
Notices served—
Factories—Intimation....1325....240
Statutory....413........17
Workshops—Intimation....8663........149
Statutory....1915........34
Workplaces, &c.—Intimation138................138
Statutory24................24
Orders required from Sanitary Committee754139........155
Certificates for Cleansing issued by Medical Officer of Health4685........59
Matters referred to District Inspectors1743........24
Matters referred to Women Inspectors....1............1
Matters referred to Workshop Inspectors................11
Cases reported for Legal Proceedings........................
Legal Proceedings taken........................
SPECIAL INSPECTION WORK.
Domestic Workshops—Inspection (Tenancies)................1212
Do. Defects found........................
Do. Defects remedied........................
Outworkers' Premises, Inspections (Tenancies)........................
Do. Defects found........................
Do. Defects remedied........................
SPECIAL INSPECTION WORK—(WOMEN INSPECTORS.)
Offices, Inspections (Tenancies)................22
Do. Defects found........................
Do. Defects remedied........................
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Inspections of Premises after Cleansing of Children................1313
Do. Do. Defects found................11
Do. Do. Defects remedied........................
Children Act, 1908 (Nurse Children), Inspections of Premises................55
Do. Do. Defects found........................
Do. Do. Defects remedied........................
Underground Conveniences for Women, Inspections................1616
Do. Do. Defects found................2626
Do. Do. Defects remedied........................
Railway Stations (Ladies' Rooms), Inspections.................2323
Do. Do. Do. Defects found................88
Do. Do. Do. Defects remedied........................
Notification of Births Act, 1907, Visits................194194
Number of Mothers attending " City Shelter " for advice ....................368368
Special Visits................1515

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OUTWORKERS AND HOMEWORKERS—The provisions of the Act
relating to "Outworkers" were carried out as heretofore and the lists of the
names and addresses of workers receiving work from the City firms were duly
received without the necessity of legal proceedings
In a number of cases employers neglected to keep lists at their premises and to
send copies of the same to the Corporation as required by the Act Notice in each
case was served upon the offender and in all cases complied with