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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]

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ANNUAL REPORT, 1937
On the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in
connection with
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.

Table: 1—INSPECTION.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

1—INSPECTION.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

Premises.Number of
Inspections. 1937 1936Written Notices. 1937 1936Prosecutions.
Factories (including Factory Laundries)5504152631..
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)2592512921..
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises, included in Part 3 of this Report)10181....
Total8196845652..

Table: 2—DEFECTS FOUND.

2—DEFECTS FOUND.

ParticularsNumber of Defects
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.No. of Prosecution
1937193619371936
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—*
Want of Cleanliness70397039....
Want of Ventilation..1..1....
Overcrowding2......2..
Want of Drainage of Floors............
Other Nuisances19132111....
† Sanitary AccommodationInsufficient2..1......
Unsuitable or Defective14111510....
Not separate for sexes
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—............
Illegal occupation of Underground Bakehouses (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.)............
Total10764107612. .

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*Including those specified in Sections 2,3,7 and 8 of the Factory and
Workshop Act as remediable under the Publio Health Acts.
† Section 22 of the Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1890, was
adopted in 1890.
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