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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
Leyton 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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as a bakehouse for twelve months must not be so used again.
Existing basement bakehouses must be re-examined within a year
of the Act coming into force and every succeeding five years. If
as a result of the examination certain conditions exist, the Council
may terminate the certificate. The occupier has a right of appeal
to the Courts.
There are five basement bakehouses within the Borough.
These have been examined and a report is being submitted to the
Council for consideration.
The local authority is required to keep a register of all factories
situated within its district. A register has been prepared, there
being at the end of the year in Leyton two hundred and ninety-three
power factories and ninety-one non-power factories.
The coming into force of this Act has given rise to additional
work and responsibility, the Sanitary Inspectors having inspected
during the year three hundred and eighty-four such places, this
necessitating nine hundred and eighty-five visits.
1. INSPECTIONS FOR PURPOSES OF PROVISIONS AS TO HEALTH. Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers Prosecuted. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories with mechanical power | 865 | 66 | — |
| Factories without mechanical power | 208 | 25 | — |
| Other Premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises) | — | — | — |
| Total | 1,073 | 91 | — |