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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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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, but in a number of places other trades are carried on.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 1,596. The complaints received numbered 107.
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 23.
1.—Inspection.
| Premises. (1) | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. (2) | Written Notices. (3) | Prosecutions. (4) | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries). | 188 | 30 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries). | 749 | 72 | — |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' Premises included in Part 3 of this Report). | 659 | 57 | -- |
| Total | 1,596 | 159 | — |
TABLE 24.
2.—D efects Found.
| Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4) | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 26 | 26 | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 16 | 16 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Other nuisances | 17 | 17 | - | - | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| unsuitable or defective | 36 | 36 | - | - | |
| not separate for sexes | 13 | 13 | — | — | |
| 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 | 129 | 129 | — | — | |