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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

East Ham 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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Table: TABLE 43.Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces, 1936.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors ofNuisances.

TABLE 43.

Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces, 1936.Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of

Nuisances.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written notices.Occupiers prosecuted.
(1)
(2)(3)(4)
Factories (including Factory Laundries)12324-
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)807-
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises)144-
Total21735-
Defects Found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Number of defects.Number of offences in respect to which prosecutions were instituted.
Particulars.Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—*
Want of cleanliness3431--
Want of ventilation44--
Overcrowding----
Want of drainage of floors----
Other nuisances2220--
Sanitary accommodation— Insufficient52--
Unsuitable or defective1512--
Not separate for sexes42--
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)----
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories & Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921)----
Total8471--

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Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.