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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 56.
Factories, workshops, laundries, workplaces, and homework.
1.-INSPECTION-Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Inspections. | Re-inspected. | Written Notices | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Factories (including Factory laundries) | 58 | 26 | 26 | – |
| Workshops (including Workshop laundries) | 402 | 274 | 155 | 1 |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 455 | 300 | 181 | 1 |
| 2. -DEFECTS FOUND. | ||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | ||
| 1) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:- Want of Cleanliness | 136 | 136 | - | - |
| Want of Ventilation | 8 | 8 | - | - |
| Overcrowding | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 14 | 14 | - | - |
| Other Nuisances | 109 | 109 | - | - |
| Sanitary accommodation- Insufficient | 3 | 3 | - | - |
| Unsuitable or defective | 35 | 35 | - | - |
| Not separate for Sexes | 11 | 11 | - | - |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act :- Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (S. 101) | Nil. | - | - | - |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Other offences | - | - | - | - |
| (Excluding offences relating to out work which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | ||||
| Total | 320 | 320 | - | 1 |