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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
Richmond upon Thames 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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Factory and Workshops Acts, 1901 and 1907.
The total number of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces
on the register is 142.
The businesses carried on at the respective premises are as follows:—
| Bakehouses | 15 |
| Dressmakers and Milliners | 16 |
| Tailors | 6 |
| Bootmakers | 5 |
| Laundries | 4 |
| Builders' workshops | 4 |
| Restaurant kitchens | 67 |
| Motor engineers | 2 |
| Shoeing forges | 2 |
| Wig making | 1 |
| Coach building | 1 |
| Furriers | 2 |
| Other trades | 17 |
| 142 |
These premises have been visited, and as a result of action taken by the department, the following defective conditions have been remedied:—
| Want of cleanliness | 8 | |
| Walls, floors, gutters and roofs repaired | 3 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | — |
| Not separate for sexes | - | |
| Unsuitable or defective | 5 | |
| Foul sanitary coveniences | 6 | |
| Accumulations removed | 3 | |
| Other nuisances and defects remedied | 13 | |
| Defective dustbins | 2 | |
| 40 | ||