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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
Willesden 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 41.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.
| Premises. | Number of. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Reinspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Factories (including factory laundries) | 23 | 31 | 4 | - | ||
| Workshops (including Workshop laundries) | 280 | 666 | 70 | - | ||
| Workplaces | 55 | 110 | 2 | - | ||
| Homeworkers premises | 52 | 52 | 1 | - | ||
| Total | 410 | 859 | 77 | - | ||
| 2. DEFECTS FOUND. | ||||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||||
| Nuisances under Public Health Acts:– | ||||||
| Want of cleanliness | 67 | 07 | - | - | ||
| Want of ventilation | 6 | 6 | 1 | - | ||
| Overcrowding | 4 | 4 | - | - | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 30 | 30 | - | - | ||
| Other nuisances | 42 | 42 | — | — | ||
| Sanitary accommodations | insufficient | — | — | — | — | |
| unsuitable or defective | 17 | 17 | — | - | ||
| not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | — | - | ||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshops Act:— | ||||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (S. 101) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100 | 49 | - | - | - | ||
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S 108) | - | - | - | - | |
| infected (S. 110) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) | - | - | - | - | ||
| Other offences | - | - | - | - | ||
| Total | 216 | 167 | 1 | — | ||