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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Borough have been employed in the manufacture of tennis
balls or wearing apparel, but towards the end of the year an
additional number were employed by the manufacturers of
elastic products. The supervision of places where home
work is carried on is done by the woman Sanitary Inspector.
She finds that, generally speaking, home work is carried out
under sanitary conditions. There were two cases of infectious
disease in the homes of the outworkers.
The following Table is in the form adopted by the Secretary
of State to provide for uniformity throughout the
country in the presentation of certain particulars of this
work which lend themselves to statistical treatment.
TABLE No. 31.
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces & Homeworkers' Premises.
1
Including inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries). | 179 | 10 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries). | 735 | 18 | — |
| Workplaces (Othor than Outworkers' Premises) | 75 | 1 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 756 | 3 | — |