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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 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901.
The following is the number of Factories and Workshops as recorded on the Factory and Workshop Register, 1925:—
| Number of Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 86 | |
| *Number of Factory Bakehouses | 11 | |
| Total Factories | 97 | |
| Number of Workshops and Workplaces (including Workshop Laundries) | 122 | |
| Number of Workshops Bakehouses | 9 | |
| Total | 131 | |
| * One underground Factory Bakehouse. | ||
| Number of inspections (Factories and Workshops) | 177 | |
| Number of Notices served to1 remedy defects | 28 | |
| Number of Notices complied with | 28 | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector | 1 | |
| Matters notified by H.M. Inspector (remediable under the Public Health Acts) | 8 | |
| List of Outworkers received | 30 | |
| Nature of defects remedied at Factories and Workshops. | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 5 |
| unsuitable or defective | 17 | |
| not separate for sexes | — | |
| Want of cleanliness | 5 | |
| Defective roof | Nil. | |
| Improperly drained floor | Nil. | |
| Want of ventilation | Nil. | |
| Other nuisances | 22 | |