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 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 | — |