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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 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1 922.
| Premises. | Number. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions |
| (3) | (4) | ||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 556 | 44 | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1,056 | 119 | - |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 532 | 129 | - |
| Total | 2,144 | 292 | -- |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspectors. | Prose cutions. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 249 | 257 | 4 | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 28 | 21 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | 1 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 279 | 272 | 3 | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 2 | — | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 355 | 342 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 42 | 35 | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 960 | 933 | 7 | — | |
t Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public
Health Acts.