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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
Woolwich 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE XVC.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, and Home-workers' Premises.
1.—
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices | ||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 75 | 21 | |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 196 | 24 | |
| Workplaces | 102 | 21 | |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 266 | 15 | |
| Total | 639 | 81 | |
| 2.—Defects found. | |||
| Description. | Number of Defects. | ||
| Found. | Remedied. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 42 | 42 | |
| Want of Ventilation.. | 10 | 10 | |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | |
| Want of Drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | |
| Other nuisances | 28 | 28 | |
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient, un-suitable, or de-fective | 9 | 9 |
| not separate for sexes | 3 | 3 | |
| Total | 95 | 95 | |