Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham]
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Abbott's Cottages and Avenue Cottages renamed Romer
Place, and renumbered.
Camden Square or Cottages and Garden Cottages renamed
Astoria Place, and renumbered.
John Street, Avenue Road, renamed Engate Street, and
renumbered.
Seymour Place renamed Railway Approach, and renumbered.
Station Road renamed Crathorne Street, and renumbered.
Electric Lighting Orders.
Tho Board considered an application submitted to the
Board of Trade by the Crystal Palace District Electric
Supply Company, and forwarded to this Board, for a license
extending the urea comprised in their Order of 1890. The
Board agreed to give their consent to the application on the
same terms and conditions or provisions as were comprised in
the Order of 1890, made and confirmed bv the Electric
Lighting Orders Confirmation Act, No. 12, 1890. This
matter was under further consideration at the end of the
year.
Factory and Workshops Acts.
In November the Board received a letter from the Local
Government Board, calling attention to an Order which had
then been recently issued by the Secretary of State under
the Factory and Workshops Acts, requiring lists to be kept
of outworkers in certain businesses or workshops, and requesting
the Board to give publicity to the Order, and to
take steps for inspection, &c., thereunder.
The Order related to the following businesses:—
The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel;
Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work;
The manufacture of electro plate; and
The manufacture of files.
The Board directed that notice of the Order be given to
the persons engaged in the District in the trades referred to
—so far as the same applied—and they also gave special
directions to their Medical Officer of Health and to the
Sanitary Inspectors to examine the lists thus required to be