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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
Chislehurst 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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1. — Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| PREMISES | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Written Notices. | Occupiers Prosecuted. | |
| FACTORIES (Including Factory Laundries) | 61 | 1 | ... |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 50 | ... | ... |
| workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises) | 3 | ... | ... |
| TOTAL | 114 | 1 | ... |
| PARTICULARS. | Number of Dufeeta. | No. of offences in respect of which prosecutions were instituted | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | 18) | (S> | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | - | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 7 | 7 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | .insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921) | |||||
| Total | 17 | 17 | Nil | Nil | |
X Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.