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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
Stepney 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Factories,
Workshops
and
Workplaces.
(2) The number of boats inspected was 13.
Two children were found on the boats.
There were no contraventions of the Acts and Regulations.
No boats were registered during the year.
Home Office Form 572
1.—Inspections.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Writen Notice | Prosecutions. | |||
| Factories | 1,560 | 254 | - | ||
| (Including Factory Laundries) Workshops | 1,338 | 237 | 1 | ||
| (Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises) | 452 | 30 | — | ||
| Totals | 3,350 | 521 | 1 | ||
| 2 —Defects found. | |||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 280 | 280 | — | 1 | |
| Want of ventilation | 10 | 10 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 276 | 276 | — | — | |
| Sanitary | insufficient | 26 | 25 | - | — |
| Accom | unsuitable or defective | 173 | 173 | - | - |
| modation | not separate for sexes | 41 | 41 | - | - |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | - | - | - | - | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this report.) | - | - | - | - | |
| Totals | 810 | 809 | — | 1 | |