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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
Enfield 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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out by means of a Washington-Lyon's Steam Disinfector situated
at the Council's Sewage Farm.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS, 1901 AND 1907.
A register is kept of all the workshops in the District, and at the
end of 1937 there were 106 workshops, 5 workplaces and 31 bakehouses
registered.
The following tables give details of the work done in connection
with these places :—
| Premises. | Nnmber of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 231 | - | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) and Workplaces | 170 | — | — |
| Bakehouses | 117 | 3 | — |
| Total | 518 | 3 | — |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :— | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Want of Ventilation | — | — | — | — |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — |
| Want of Drainage of Floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other Nuisances | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Sanitary Accommodation :- | ||||
| Insufficient | — | — | — | — |
| Unsuitable or Defective | 7 | 7 | — | — |
| Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — . |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshops Acts :- | - | |||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses | - | - | - | - |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Other Offences | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 12 | 12 | — | — |