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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 1934
[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 159.
The businesses carried on at the respective premises are as
follows:—
Bakehouses 15
Dressmakers and Milliners 20
Tailors 6
Bootmakers 5
Laundries 4
Builders' workshops 4
Restaurant kitchens 83
Motor engineers 2
Shoeing forges 2
Wig making 2
Coach building 1
Furriers 2
Other trades 13
159
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 | 20 | |
| Walls, floors, gutters and roofs repaired | 6 | |
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | — |
| Not separate for sexes | — | |
| Unsuitable or defective | 6 | |
| Foul sanitary conveniences | 4 | |
| Accumulations removed | 2 | |
| Other nuisances and defects remedied | 8 | |
| Defective dustbins | 4 | |
| 50 | ||