Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in connection with
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK,
DURING THE YEAR 1909.
1.— I nspection.
Inspection made by Sanitary Inspectors.
Premises. | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 192 | 18 | - |
(Including Workshop Laundries.) | 3694 | 333 | - |
Workplaces .. (Including Bakehouses and excluding Outworkers' premises dealt with in Table 3.) | 818 | 117 | - |
Total | 4704 | 468 | - |
2.—D efects F ound.
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Want of cleanliness | 287 | 287 | — | — | |
Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
Other nuisances | 53 | 53 | — | — | |
Sanitary accommodation | 'insufficient | 9 | 9 | — | — |
unsuitable or defective | 43 | 43 | — | — | |
not separate for sexes | 11 | 11 | — | — | |
Illegal occupation or underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (Ss. 97 to 100) | _ | — | — | _ | |
Other offences. (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | - | — | — | — | |
Total | 403 | 403 | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts.