Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 |