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 St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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1.—I NSPECTION.
Premises | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections | Written Notices | Prosecutions | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 239 | 40 | – |
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 1,426 | 79 | –– |
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 1.307 | 49 | –– |
Total | 2,972 | 168 | – |
2,—DEFECTS FOUND.
Particulars | Number of Defects | Number of Prosecutions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found | Remedied | Referred to H.M Inspector | |||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
53 | 23 | – | – | ||
Want of ventilation | 13 | 13 | – | – | |
Overcrowding | 7 | 7 | – | – | |
Want of drainage of floors | 12 | 12 | – | – | |
Other nuisances | 45 | 45 | – | – | |
Sanitary accommodation - | insufficient | 10 | 10 | – | – |
unsuitable or defective | 32 | 32 | – | – | |
not separate for sexes | 7 | 7 | – | – | |
–– | –– | –– | –– | ||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | 14 | 14 | –– | –– | |
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | –– | –– | –– | –– | |
Total | 193 | 193 | – | – |