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Chiswick 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chiswick]
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ANNUAL REPORT of MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH for 1908 for the
URBAN DISTRICT OF CHISWICK.
on the Administration of the Factory and Workshop Acts, in connection with
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES & HOMEWORK.
1—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inpectors or Inspectors
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 36 | 1 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 163 | 5 | — |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | 42 | — | — |
| Total | 241 | 12 | — |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecut'ns | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Want of Cleanliness | 5 | 5 | — | — | |
| Want of Ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | — | — | — | |
| Other Nuisances | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| †Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | — | — | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — | |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report). | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | 11 | 11 | — | — | |
3.—HOMEWORK.
| NATURE OF WORK. | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | Number of Inspections of Outworkers' premises. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Numbers of Addresses of Outworkers received from other Councils. | Numbers of Addresses of Outworkers forwarded to other Councils. | |||
| Twice in the year. | |||||
| (1) | Lists. ‡ (2) | Outworkers. ‡ (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) |
| Wearing Apparel— | |||||
| (1) making, &c. | 20 | 36 | 46 | 25 | 49 |
| (2) cleaning and washing | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 20 | 36 | 46 | 25 | 49 |
4.—REGISTERED WORKSHOPS
| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Imported classes of workshops, such as workshop bake-houses, may be enumerated here. | Workshops | 158 |
| Workplaces | 29 | |
| Total number of workshops on Register | 187 | |
5.—OTHER MATTERS.
| Class. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | 2 | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 2 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 2 | |
| Other | – | |
| Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):— | ||
| Certificates granted during the year | – | |
| In use at the end of the year | 4 | |
*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Acts as remediable under
the Public Health Acts.
† For districts not in London state here whether section 22 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act,
1890, has been adopted by the District Council; and if so what standard of sufficiency and suitability of sanitary
accommodation for persons employed in factories and workshops has been enforced.
‡ The figures required in columns 2 and 3 are the total number of lists received from employers who sent
them both in February and August as required by the Act and of the entries of names of outworkers in those
lists. They will, therefore, usually be double of the number of such employers and (approximately) double of
the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same
employer the same outworker's name will often be repeated.