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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 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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especially those in charge of districts on the south of Marylebone Road. The
staplel industry is dressmaking, millinery and tailoring in all its branches.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 2,610; 111 by the women and 2,499 by the men inspectors. The complaints
received numbered 61.
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: 1.—INSPECTION.

1.—INSPECTION.

Premises (1)Number of
Inspections (2)Written Notices (3)Prosecutions (4)
Factories935-
(Including Factory Laundries)
Workshops92994-
(Including Workshop Laundries)
Workplace158860-
(Other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report)
Total2610159

Table: 2,—DEFECTS FOUND.

2,—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars (1)Number of DefectsNumber of Prosecutions (5)
Found (2)Remedied (3)Referred to H.M Inspector (4)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts—
Want of cleanliness6666——
Want of ventilation1010——
Overcrowding44——
Want of drainage of floors33——
Other nuisances3636——
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient77——
unsuitable or defective4646_—
not separate for sexes1515——
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)1616--
Other offences(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report)----
Total203203——