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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
Hammersmith 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead, Metropolitan Borough of]
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| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 37 | 37 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 47 | 47 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | |insufficient | — | — | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 15 | 15 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| 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. | — | — | — | — | |
| Totals | 109 | 109 | — | — | |
| *Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891. | |||||
Home Work (Outworkers).
Certain classes of work done at the homes of workers are controlled
by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. The object
of this supervision is to prevent work being done in insanitary
dwellings, or in premises where there is dangerous infectious disease.
Every occupier of a factory, workshop, or place from which home
work is given out, and contractors employed by them, are required to
keep lists of their home workers. The occupiers are required to send
to the local authority on or before 1st February and 1st August in each
year copies of such lists. Upon receipt of these lists, the names and
addresses of those workers who reside in other districts are forwarded
to the Medical Officers of Health concerned, and those home workers
resident in the Borough are kept under supervision.