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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
Hendon 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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10.—FACTORY & WORKSHOPS ACTS, 1901.
The following is the number of Factories and Workshops as recorded on the Factory and Workshop Register, 1921.
| Number of Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 73 | |
| *Number of Factory Bakehouses | 12 | |
| Total Factories | 85 | |
| Number of Workshops and Workplaces (including Workshop Laundries) | 120 | |
| Number of Workshop Bakehouses | 6 | |
| Total | 126 | |
| Number of Inspections (Factories and Workshops) | 143 | |
| Number of Notices served to remedy defects | 23 | |
| ,, ,, complied with | 23 | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector | 3 | |
| Matters notified by H.M. Inspector | 5 | |
| (remediable under the Public Health Acts) | ||
| List of Outworkers received | 20 | |
| Nature of defects remedied at Factories & Workshops. | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 2 |
| unsuitable or defective | 19 | |
| not separate for sexes | — | |
| Want of cleanliness | 8 | |
| Defective roof | 1 | |
| Defective floor | 1 | |
| Improperly drained floor | 1 | |
| Want of ventilation | 1 | |
| Other Nuisances | 26 | |