Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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11—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Particulars. | Number of Defects | Number of offences in respect to which Prosecutions were instituted. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
Want of Cleanliness | 7 | 7 | – | – | |
Want of Ventilation | – | – | – | – | |
Overcrowding | – | – | – | – | |
Want of drainage of floors | – | – | – | – | |
Other nuisances | – | – | – | – | |
Sanitary Accommodation | Insufficient | 3 | l | – | – |
Unsuitable or Defective | 1 | l | – | – | |
Not separate for sexes | – | – | – | – | |
Illegal occupation of Underground Bakehouse (s. 101) | – | – | – | – | |
Other Offences—(Excluding offences relating to out-work and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers)Order, 1921 | 5 | 5 | – | – | |
Total | 16 | 14 | – | – |
*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Work
shop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
III—OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES,
SECTION 108.
No action was found to be necessary in connection with the
above.