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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

Orpington 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: INSPECTION OF FACTORIES. 1. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health. Including' Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

INSPECTION OF FACTORIES. 1. Inspections for purposes of provisions as to health. Including' Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.

Premises.Number of
InspectionsWritten NoticesOccupiers prosecuted
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Factories witli mechanical power63——
Factories without mechanical power
†Other Premises under the Act (including works of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises)——
fElectrical Stations should be reckoned as Factories.———
Total63——
2. Defects found.
ParticularsNumber of Defects.Number of defects in respect of which Prosecutions were instituted
FoundRemediedReferred to H.M. Inspector
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Want of cleanliness (S. 1)NIL
Overcrowding (S. 2)
Unreasonable temperature (S. 3)
Inadequate ventilation (S. 4)
Ineffective drainage of floors (S. 6)
Sanitary conveniences tS. 7)insufficient—
unsuitable or defective—
not separate for sexes—
Other offences (S. 7) (Not including offences relating to Homework or offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921, and re-enacted in the Third Schedule to the Factories Act, 1937).
Total