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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 34.
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homeworkers' Premises.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 322 | 14 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 608 | 7 | — |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' Premises) | 184 | 5 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 433 | 1 | — |
2.—
| Description. | Number of Defects. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Want of cleanliness | 25 | 25 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 4 | 4 | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 12 | 12 | — | — | |
| Sanitary Accommodation | insufficient | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| not separate for . sexes | — | - | - | - | |
| Illegal occupation of under | — | - | — | — | |
| ground bakehouses (s. 101) Other offences | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 51 | 51 | — | — | |