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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 67.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, and Homeworkers' Premises. 1.
Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories | 205 | 18 | - |
| (Including Factory Laundries) Workshops | 627 | 12 | - |
| (Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces | 80 | 2 | - |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 916 | 29 | - |
| Total | 1828 | 61 | — |
2.—
| Description. | Number of Defects | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspect'r | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness.. | 25 | 25 | — | — | |
| Want of Ventilation | 1 | 1 | - | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | - | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 11 | 11 | - | — | |
| Sanitary Accommodation | insufficient unsuitable or defective not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| 25 | 25 | — | — | ||
| 1 | 1 | — | — | ||
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 67 | 67 | — | — | |