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 Orpington]
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A detailed list of the Factories and Workshops remaining at the end of the year is shown in the following Table:—
Trade. | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Factories. | Workshops. | Total. | |
Saw Mills | 4 | — | 4 |
Laundries | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Cycle Works | 1 | 13 | 14 |
Carriage Makers and Wheelwright | — | 2 | 2 |
Printing Works | 3 | — | 3 |
Carpenters and Builders | — | 25 | 25 |
Undertakers | — | 1 | 1 |
Shoeing Forges | — | 8 | 8 |
Dressmakers and Tailors | — | 8 | 8 |
Upholsterers | — | 3 | 3 |
Bakeries | — | 18 | 18 |
Paper Mills | 1 | — | 1 |
Harness Makers | — | 1 | 1 |
Bootmaking and Repairing | — | 19 | 19 |
Chaff Cutting and Corn Grinding | 1 | — | 1 |
Motor Repairers | 10 | 5 | 15 |
Sculptural Factory | 1 | — | 1 |
Cab Washing (workplace) | — | 1 | 1 |
Basket Makers | — | 1 | 1 |
Wireless | — | 3 | 3 |
Ballast Works | 1 | — | 1 |
Breeze Block Makers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Tile Makers | 1 | — | 1 |
Builders' Merchants (workplaces) | — | 2 | 2 |
Electrical Engineers | — | 2 | 2 |
Plumber | — | 1 | 1 |
Rag Sorter | — | 1 | 1 |
Brick Works | 1 | — | 1 |
Cooperage | 1 | — | 1 |
Gas Mask Works | 1 | — | 1 |
Leather Cloth Works | 1 | — | . 1 |
Total | 32 | 122 | 154 |
One hundred and thirty-eight visits were paid to these
premises, but no defects were found.
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) | 138 | — | — |
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | |||
Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises) | |||
Total | 138 | — | — |