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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—I nspection.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 34 | – | – |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 2932 | 477 | – |
| Workplaces | 827 | 98 | – |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 743 | 94 | – |
| Total | 4536 | 669 | – |
2.—D efects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—* | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 501 | 501 | — | — | |
| Want of Ventilation | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 109 | 109 | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 7 | 7 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 38 | 38 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| 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) | 17† | 17 | — | — | |
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | unwholesome (S. 108) | — | — | — | — |
| infected | — | — | — | — | |
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 680 | 680 | — | — | |
* 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.