Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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FACTORIES ACT, 1937. FACTORIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK. 1.—Inspection of Factories and Workplaces. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
Premises. | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
(1) | Inspections. (2) | Written Notices. (3) | Occupiers Prosecuted. (4) |
Factories (With Power) | 543 | 77 | - |
Workshops (Without Power) | 264 | 21 | - |
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 11 | — | - |
Total | 818 | 98 | - |
2.—Defects Found in Factories and Workplaces.
Particulars. | Number of Delects. | Number of offences in respect of which Prose cutions were instituted. (5) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H.M. Inspectors. (4) | ||
Want of cleanliness | 180 | 182 | 2 | ||
Overcrowding | 1 | — | — | — | |
Unreasonable temperature | — | — | — | — | |
Inadequate ventilation | 3 | 3 | — | - | |
Ineffective drainage of floors | — | — | — | - | |
Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 5 | 5 | — | - |
unsuitable or defective | 139 | 127 | - | — | |
not separate for sexes | 5 | 7 | — | — | |
Otder offences (not including offences relating to home work or offences under tde Sections mentioned in tde Schedule to tde Ministry of Healtd (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted in tde tdird Schedule to tde Factories Act, 1937) | - | - | - | - | |
Total | 333 | 324 | 2 | — |
No instance of outwork in unwholesome premises under Section 111 of the Factories
Act was reported.
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