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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
Southgate 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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31
ANNUAL REPORT
On the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in connection
with
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| In spec-tions. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 10 | 1 | |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 127 | 13 | - |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premiseS, included in Part 3 of this lteport) | 16 | - | - |
| Total | 153 | 14 | - |
2.-DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Dcfects. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Reme' died. | lieferred toH.M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :- | |||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 15 | 15 | - | - | |
| Want of Ventilation | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| Want of Drainage of Floors | 2 | o | - | - | |
| Other Nuisances | 3 | 3 | - | - | |
| t Sanitary Accommodation | Insufficient | - | - | - | - |
| Unsuitable or Defective | 4 | 4 | - | - | |
| Notseparate for sexes.. | - | - | - | - | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:- | |||||
| Illegal occupation of Underground Bakehouse (s. 101) | - | - | - | - | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for Bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | - | - | - | - | |
| Other Offences | - | - | - | - | |
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report). | |||||
| Total | 26 | 26 | - | - | |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7, and 8 of the Factory and
Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
†Section 22 of the Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1890, was adopted
in 1890.