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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
Carshalton 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Carshalton]
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1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 20 | 1 | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 19 | 2 | - |
| Workplaces | - | - | - |
| Homeworkers' Premises | - | - | - |
| Total | 39 | 3 | - |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 1 | 1 | |||
| Want of ventilation | - | - | |||
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | |||
| Other Nuisances | - | - | |||
| Sauitary accommodation | insufficient | - | - | ||
| unsuitable or defective | - | - | |||
| not separate for sexes | - | - | |||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act | - | - | |||
| Total | 3 | 3 | |||
3.—OTHER MATTERS.
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | 1 | |||
| Action taken in matters referied by H.M. (Notified by H.M. Inspectors | 1 | |||
| Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory Act (s. 5) | Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors | 1 | ||
| Other | - | |||
| Underground Bakehouses (s. 101) | - | |||
| Number of | ||||
| Homework— | Lists. | Outworker | ||
| List of Outworkers (s. 107) :— | 2 | 8 | ||
| Lists received | ||||
| Addresses of outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 8 | ||
| received from other Authorities | - | |||
| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year | 41 | |||
| Workshop Bakehouses | 6 | |||
| ,, Laundries | 5 | |||
| Other Workshops | 30 | |||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 41 | |||
The Limes, J. WILLIAMSON, M.D.
Epsom,
February 1906.