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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
Bromley 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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APPENDIX XIII.
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Occupiers prosecuted. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 51 | 5 | - |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 66 | 34 | — |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises) | 53 | 4 | — |
| Total | 170 | 43 | — |
II. —Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of offences in respect to which Proseutions were instituted. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied | Referred to H.M Inspector. | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 17 | 17 | |||
| Want of ventilation | |||||
| Overcrowding | |||||
| Want of drainage of floors | |||||
| Other nuisances | 8 | 8 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 6 | 6 | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 10 | 10 | |||
| not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | |||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s.101) | |||||
| Other offences | |||||
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order. 1921). | |||||
| 43 | 43 | — | — | ||
| Total | |||||
Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
as remediable tinder the Public Health Acts.