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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 1937
[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, 1937
| Number of Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 110 | |
| Number of Factory Bakehouses | 22 | |
| Total Factories | 132 | |
| Number of Workshops and Workplaces (including Workshop Laundries) | 172 | |
| Number of Workshop Bakehouses | 8 | |
| Total | 180 | |
| * One Underground Factory Bakehouse. | ||
| Number of Inspections (Factories and Workshops) | 147 | |
| Number of Notices served to remedy defects 24 | ||
| Outstanding, 1936 4 | 28 | |
| Number of Notices complied with | 22 | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector | — | |
| Matters notified by H.M. Inspector (remediable under the Public Health Acts) | 8 | |
| Lists of Outworkers received | 29 | |
| Nature of defects remedied at Factories and Workshops.— | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 1 |
| unsuitable or defective | 2 | |
| not separate for sexes | — | |
| Want of cleanliness | 26 | |
| Overcrowding | — | |
| Improperly drained floor | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | |
| Other nuisances | 18 | |