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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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TABLE E.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.
1.—INSPECTION
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspector or Inspector of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 1 | ||||||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces | 66 14 | Nil | Nil | ||||
| 1 l OMEWORKERS' PREMISES | 10 | ||||||
| Total | 91 | Nil | Nil | ||||
| 3. 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 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Insufficient Sanitary Accommodation | 1 | — | 1 | ||||
| Total | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| 3. OTHER MATTERS. | |||||||
| Class. | Number. | ||||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | |||||||
| In use at the end of 1909 (technically underground but well lighted and ventilated to open air) | 2 | ||||||
| Homework :— | Number of | ||||||
| List of Outworkers (S. 107) :— | Li-ts | Outworkers | |||||
| Lists received | 6 | 14 | |||||
| Addresses of Outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 1 | |||||
| received from other Authorities | 2 | ||||||
| Inspection of Premises... | 10 | ||||||
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1908: | |||||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bake-houses, may be enumerated here | Dressmakers (mostly small places) | 36 | |||||
| Hand laundries | 25 | ||||||
| Fating places (not hotels) | 14 | ||||||
| Sausages, etc | 4 | ||||||
| Bakehouse | 29 | ||||||
| Various | 106 | ||||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 214 | ||||||