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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 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—Inspection.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 56 | — | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 4681 | 454 | — |
| Workplaces | |||
| Home workers'Premises | 651 | 23 | |
| Total | 5388 | 477 | — |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied | Referred toH.M. Inspector. | ||
| Want of cleanliness | 324 | 321 | 3 | — |
| Want of Ventilation | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Overcrowding | 7 | 7 | — | — |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other nuisances | 67 | 67 | — | — |
| insufficient | 16 | 16 | — | — |
| Sanitary accommodation ( unsuitable or defective | 37 | 37 | — | — |
| not, separate for sexes.. | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — |
| Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S 107) | 18 | 18 | — | — |
| Giving out work to be done in unwholesome (S. 108) | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| premises which are I infected | — | — | — | - |
| Allowiog wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) | — | — | — | - |
| Other offences | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 475 | 472 | 3 | — |
Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under
the Public Health Acts.
• Letters sent in these cases,