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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
Kingston upon Thames 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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TABLE E.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces & Homework
1.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices | Prosecutions. | |||||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 3 | ||||||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 72 | Nil | Nil | ||||
| Workplaces | 10 | ||||||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 5 | ||||||
| Total | 90 | Nil | Nil | ||||
| 2.—DEFECTS FOUND. | |||||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referr'd toH.M. Insp'ct'r | |||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Insufficient sanitary accommodation | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 4 | 4 | |||||
| 3.—OTHER MATTERS. | |||||||
| Class. | Number. | ||||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):- | |||||||
| In use at the end of 1907 (technically underground but well lighted and ventilated to open air) | 2 | ||||||
| Homework:— | Number of | ||||||
| Lists | Outworkers | ||||||
| Lists received | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Addresses of Outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 2 | |||||
| received from other Authorities | 3 | ||||||
| Inspection of premises | 5 | ||||||
| Workshops on the Register (S.131) at the end of 1907: | |||||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bake houses, may be enumerated here | Dressmakers (mostly small places) | 35 | |||||
| Hand laundries | 25 | ||||||
| Eating places (not hotels) | 12 | ||||||
| Sausages, etc. | 4 | ||||||
| Bakehouses | 31 | ||||||
| Various | 106 | ||||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 213 | ||||||