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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 RDC]

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Table: 1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

Premises. 1.Number of
Inspections. 2.Written Notices. 3.Occupiers prosecuted 4.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries)426
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries)383
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises)130
Total939

Table: 2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

2.—Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

Particulars. 1Number of Defects.Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. 5
Found. 2Remedied. 3Referred to H. M. Inspector 4
Nuisances under the PublicHealth Acts:—*
Want of cleanliness22
Want of ventilation
Overcrowding
Want of drainage of floors
Other nuisances
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient11
unsuitable or defective77
not separate for sexes11
Offences under the Factoryand Workshop Acts:-
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921).
Totals1111
*Including those specified in sections 2. 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.