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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 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.
Administration of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1.—Inspection.
Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Inspections. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (4) | ||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 37 | ||
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries and Bakehouses) | |||
| Workplaces (Excluding Outworkers' premises dealt with in Table III.) | ... | ||
| Totals | |||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.m. Inspector. | |||
| (2) | (5) | ||||
| ... | |||||
| Want of ventilation | ... | ... | |||
| Overcrowding | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | ... | |||
| Other nuisances | ... | ... | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient...... | ||||
| unsuitable or defec-tive | ... | ||||
| not separate for sexes | ... | ... | ... | ||
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| bakehouse (Section 101) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (Sections 97 to 100) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report.) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Totals | ... | ||||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act
as remediable under the Public Health Acts.