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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
Marylebone 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factories and Workshops.
Though factories are comparatively few in the Borough, the number of workshops,
many of them domestic workshops, is considerable, and work in relation to
them bulks very large amongst the duties of the district inspectors, more especially
those in charge of districts on the south of Marylebone Road. The staple industry
is, of course, dressmaking, millinery and tailoring in all its branches, but in a number
of places other trades, some of them distinctly curious, are carried on.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 2,750, 386 by the women and 2,364 by the men inspectors. The
complaints received numbered 39.
The following report which the Medical Officer of Health is required to make
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in accordance with the provisions
of Section 132 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, gives, in addition to other
information, the total number of defects found and of notices served.
I.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 76 | 10 | - |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 1281 | 163 | - |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | 1393 | 53 | - |
| Total | 2750 | 226 | — |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | N mnber of Prosecutions. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | ||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 66 | 66 | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 9 | 9 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 9 | 9 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 70 | 70 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 8 | 8 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 54 | 54 | - | - | |
| not separate for sexes | 18 | 18 | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | - | - | - | - | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | 7 | 7 | - | - | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | - | - | - | - | |
| Total | 242 | 242 | — | — | |