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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
West Ham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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1,— Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors
of Nuisance.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices | Uccupiers Piosecuted. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 528 | 16 | •• |
| Workshops (Including Woikshop Laundries) | .. | 7 | •• |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers'premises] | 148 | 10 | .. |
| Total | 787 | 33 | .. |
2 —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. | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :— | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 112 | 109 | .. | .. |
| Want of ventilation | 6 | 5 | .. | .. |
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Other nuisances | 96 | 109 | .. | .. |
| Sanitary accommodation— | .. | .. | ||
| Insufficient | .. | .. | ||
| Unsuitable or defective | . 17 | 16 | .. | .. |
| Not sepaiate for sexes | .. | .. | ||
| Offences under the Factory and Woikshop Acts:— | .. | .. | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | .. | .. | ||
| Other offences | 9 | 8 | 7 | .. |
| (Excluding- offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921.) | .. | .. | ||
| Total | 243 | 250 | 7 | •• |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Woikshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.