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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 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: The particulars of inspections made by the sanitary inspectors are as follows:—Table No. 109

The particulars of inspections made by the sanitary inspectors are as follows:—

Table No. 109

PremisesNumber of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Factories (including factory laundries)85593...
Workshops (including workshop laundries)1,240201...
Workplaces (cookshops, fried fish shops and ice cream shops) (excluding outworkers' premises dealt with in table 110.)1,01888...
Totals2,113382...

Table: The defects found and dealt with were as follows:—Table No. 110

The defects found and dealt with were as follows:—

Table No. 110

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.RemediedReferred to H.M. Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts*:—
Want of cleanliness4949......
Want of ventilation44......
Overcrowding............
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances365365......
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient2020......
unsuitable or defective145145......
not separate for sexes1111......
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts—
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 table on page 131)............
Totals594594......

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act
as remediable under the Public Health Act.