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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 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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10.—FACTORY and WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901.
The following is the number of Factories and Workshops
as recorded on the Factory and Workshop Register, 1923:—
Number of Factories (including Factory Laundries) 76
*Number of Factory Bakehouses 11
Total Factories 87
Number of Workshops and Workplaces (including
Workshop Laundries) 106
Number of Workshops Bakehouses 10
Total 116
*One underground Factory Bakehouse.
Number of inspections (Factories and Workshops) 105
Number of Notices served to remedy defects 18
Number of Notices complied with 17
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector 3
Matters notified by H.M. Inspector (remediable
under the Public Health Acts) 3
List of Outworkers received 32
Nature of defects remedied at Factories and Workshops
Sanitary accommodation
insufficient 3
unsuitable or defective 8
not separate for sexes —
Want of cleanliness 9
Defective roof —
Improperly drained floor —
Want of ventilation —
Other nuisances 14