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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Factory and Workshop Act.—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. 32.
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homeworkers' Premises.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries). | 286 | 21 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries). | 712 | 29 | _ |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' Premises) | 132 | 12 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 527 | 4 | |
2.—
| Description. | Number of Defects. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspect'r | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 42 | 41 | _ | _ | |
| Want of Ventilation | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 41 | 36 | — | — | |
| Sanitary Accommodation | insufficient | 14 | 14 | _ | _ |
| unsuitable or defective | 16 | 16 | - | - | |
| not separate for sexes | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101) | - | - | - | - | |
| Other offences | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 119 | 113 | — | — | |