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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
East Barnet 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Barnet]
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FOR THE URBAN DISTRICT OF EAST BARNET VALLEY. FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factorie | |||
| (Including Factory Laundries.) | |||
| Workshops | |||
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) | |||
| Workplaces | — | — | — |
| Total | |||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects | N umber of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—* | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | |||||
| Want of ventilation | |||||
| Overcrowding | |||||
| Want of drainage of floors | |||||
| Other nuisances | |||||
| †Sanitary accommodation | insufficient unsuitable or defective not separate for sexes | ||||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101). | |||||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100). | |||||
| Failure as regards lists of outworkers (S. 107). | |||||
| Giving out work to be done in premises which are | |||||
| unwholesome (S. 108). | |||||
| infected (S. 110). | |||||
| Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109). | |||||
| Other offences | |||||
| Total | |||||
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factor Act,
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.