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Kensington 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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No cases of infectious disease were reported during the year from premises where home work
was carried on.
The appended table summarises the work for the year of the Women Health Officers under
the Factory and Workshop Acts, so far as it is capable of being expressed in this form:—
1. No. of Factory Inspections 142
2. „ Workshop „ 857
3. „ Home Workers' Inspections 160
4. „ Work Place „ 73
Home Office Tables.
The following tables contain a summary of the inspections made and the defects found and
remedied in workshops and factories within the Borough, where men, women, young persons or
children are employed.
I.—Inspections.
| Premises. | Number of | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||||||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 267 | 22 | – | |||||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 1180 | 70 | — | |||||
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises) | 184 | 18 | – | |||||
| Total | 1631 | 110 | — | |||||
| II.—Defects Found. | ||||||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to h.m. Inspector. | ||||||
| 79 | 79 | – | – | |||||
| Want of ventilation | 9 | 9 | — | — | ||||
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | – | – | ||||
| Want of drainage of floors | 6 | 6 | — | — | ||||
| Other nuisances | 37 | 35 | 2 | — | ||||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 10 | 10 | — | — | |||
| unsuitable or defective | 24 | 24 | – | — | ||||
| not separate for sexes | 8 | 8 | — | — | ||||
| – | – | – | – | |||||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Other Offences (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) | 10 | 7 | 3 | – | ||||
| Total | 181 | 176 | 5 | — | ||||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public
Health Acts,
III.—Outwork in Unwholesome Premises (Section 108).
No case came to my notice during the year of outwork being carried on in unwholesome premises.