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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
The following is the number of Factories and Workshops as recorded on the Factory and Workshop Register, 1936:—
| Number of Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 107 | ||
| Number of Factory Bakehouses | 21 | ||
| Total Factories | 128 | ||
| Number of Workshops and Workplaces (including Workshop Laundries) | 167 | ||
| Number of Workshop Bakehouses | |||
| Total | 174 | ||
| One Underground Factory Bakehouse. | |||
| Number of Inspections (Factories and Workshops) | 163 | ||
| Number of Notices served to remedy defects | 26 | 30 | |
| Outstanding, 1935 | 4 | ||
| Number of Notices complied with | 26 | ||
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector | — | ||
| Matters notified by H.M. Inspector (remediable under the Public Health Acts) | 9 | ||
| Lists of Outworkers received | 30 | ||
| Nature of defects remedied at Factories and Workshops.— | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | — | |
| unsuitable or defective | 10 | ||
| not separate for sexes | 1 | ||
| Want of cleanliness | 16 | ||
| Overcrowding | — | ||
| Improperly drained floor | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | — | ||
| Other nuisances | 4 | ||