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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
Tottenham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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34
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
In compliance with Section 132, I have to submit a resume of the
work effected during the year—under the provisions of the above Act—
in the form prescribed by the Home Office:—
1.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Faotories (including Factory Laun dries) | 302 | 25 | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 311 | 22 | — |
| Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report).. | 202 | 13 | — |
| Total | 815 | 60 | — |
2.—
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Numbei of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 41 | 42f | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | - | — | |
| Other nuisances | 19 | 17 | — | — | |
| Sanitary ???ccommodation | insufficient | - | — | - | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 11 | 11 | - | — | |
| not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101) | — | -- | — | — | |
| Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | ||||
| Total | 75 | 74 | — | — | |
| *Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts, †Including one notice served in 1935. | |||||