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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT.
Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1920,
for the County Borough of East Ham,
on the administration of the Factory & Workshop Act, 1901, in connection with
Factories, Workshops, Workplaces & Homework.
1. INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
PREMISES.
Number of
Inspections.
Written
Notices.
Prose,cutions.
Factories
(Including Factory Laundries)
7
l
—
Workshops
(Including Workshop Laundries)
79
4
—
Workplaces
(Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3
of this Report.)
-
-
-
Total
86
5
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2.—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS,
AND WORKPLACES.
PARTICULARS.
Number of Defects.
Number
of
Prosecutions.
Found.
Rentedied.
Referred
to H.M.
Inspector.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—
Want of cleanliness
1
1
—
—
Want of ventilation
—
—
—
—
Overcrowding
—
—
—
—
Want of drainage of floors
—
—
—
—
Other Nuisances
9
9
—
—
Sanitary accommodation-
(i w.c. required for 25 persons)
insufficient
2
2
—
—
unsuitable or defective
—
—
—
—
not separate for sexes
2
2
—
—
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses(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
14
14
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