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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers Frosccuted. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 777 | 84 | † |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 633 | 28 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 501 | 17 | — |
| Total | 1,911 | 129 | — |
2.—Defects Found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect of which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspectors. | |||
| (i) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:- | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 298 | 287 | 5 | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 38 | 39 | — | ||
| Overcrowding | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 299 | 323 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 5 | 3 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 475 | 493 | — | 1† | |
| not separate for sexes | 22 | 24 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | " | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921) | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 1,142 | 1,173 | 5 | 1 | |
•Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public
Health Acts.
fProsecutions instigated against owner.
No instance of outwork in unwholesome premises under Section 108 of the factory and
Workshop Act was reported.