Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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TABLE E.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 6 | |||
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 74 | Nil | Nil | |
| Workplaces | 5 | |||
| Total | 85 | Nil | Nil | |
| 2.—DEFECTS FOUND. | ||||
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 5 | 5 | ||
| Want of drainage of Floors | Nil | Nil | Nil | Nil |
| Other Nuisances | 3 | 3 | ||
| Total | 8. | 8 | Nil | Nil |
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 | |||
| Lists | Outworkers | |||
| Lists received | 7 | 12 | ||
| Addresses of Outworkers | forwarded to other Authorities | 7 | 7 | |
| received from other Authorities | ||||
| Inspection of Premises. | 13 | |||
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of 1908: | ||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here | Dressmakers (mostly small places) | 46 | ||
| Hand laundries | 30 | |||
| Eating places (not hotels)... | 15 | |||
| Sausages, etc. | 4 | |||
| Bakehouses | 29 | |||
| Various | 106 | |||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 230 | |||