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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

Shoreditch 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE X.MATTERS DEALT WITH IN CONNECTION WITH FACTORIES WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

TABLE X.

MATTERS DEALT WITH IN CONNECTION WITH FACTORIES WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

PARTICULARS.Number of Defects.Notices IssuedProsecutions.
Found.Notified by Home Office.Remedied.Notified to Home Office.
Matters under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
Want of Cleanliness1949729197291
Want of Ventilation...2222
Want of Air Space : Overcrowding...1444
Sanitary Accommodation' (s. 38,)Insufficient15656
Unsuitable731383138
Not Separate for Sexes2810810
Want of Drainage of Floors...............
Other Nuisances2219411941
Contraventions of Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
Occupying underground Bakehouse without certificate...............
Breach of Special Sanitary Requirements for Bakehouse (ss. 97 to 100)...............
Failure as regards Lists of Outworkers (s. 107)12.........12*
Giving out , woi k to be done in premises which areUnwholesome (s. 108)...............
Infected (s. 110)...............
Allowing Wearing Apparel to be made in Premises infected by Scarlet Fever or Small-pox (s. 109...............
Other Contraventions...............
Total238166392 1166404

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* Letters were sent in these cases.