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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 1913
[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) | 120 | 18 | |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 271 | 15 | |
| Workplaces | 120 | 31 | |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 364 | 18 | |
| Total | 875 | 82 | |
| 2.—Defects found. | |||
| Description. | Number of Defects. | ||
| Found. | Remedied. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 36 | 21 | |
| Want of Ventilation | 11 | 11 | |
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | |
| Want of Drainage of floors | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 12 | 12 | |
| Sanitary Accommodation | C insufficient— unsuitable or defective | 12 | 11 |
| not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | |
| Total | 74 | 58 | |