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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 1921

[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 dressmaking, millinery and tailoring in all its branches.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 3,735, 169 by the women and 3,566 by the men inspectors. The
complaints received numbered 42.
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 Workshop Act, 1901, gives, in addition to other
information, the total number of defects found and of notices served.

Table: I .—INSPECTION.

I .—INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Factories(Including Factory Laundries.)9514—
Workshops(Including Workshop Laundries.)1794201—
Workplaces(Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.)184692-
Total3735307—

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.N umber of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances wider the Public Health Acts:—
Want of cleanliness102102
Want of ventilation44——
Overcrowding1313——
Want of drainage of floors————
Other nuisances167167-—
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient44——
unsuitable or defective7474--
not separate for sexes88——
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)----
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100)66--
Other offences(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.)----
Total378378——