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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
Surbiton 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 3 | ||
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 54 | 2 | Nil. |
| Workplaces | 4 | ||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 8 | ||
| Total | 69 | 2 | Nil. |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspect'r | ||
| Want of cleanliness | ||||
| Want of ventilation | ||||
| Overcrowding | ||||
| Want of drainage of floors | ||||
| Other Nuisances | 31 | 31 | ||
| +Sanitary accommodation— | ||||
| Insufficient | 1 | 1 | ||
| Unsuitable or defective | 17 | 17 | ||
| Not separate for sexes | ||||
| 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 | 49 | 49 | ||
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory 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,
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