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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces & Homework.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 49 | 1 | Nil. |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part III. of this Report | |||
| Total | |||
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspect'r | ||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 1 | 1 | - | — |
| W ant of ventilation | 1 | 1 | _- | — |
| Overcrowding | ||||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | _- | — |
| Other Nuisances | ||||
| Sanitary accommodation—† | ||||
| Insufficient | 1 | 1 | - | — |
| Unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | - | — |
| Not separate for sexes | ||||
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | ||||
| Illegal occupation of Underground Bakehouse (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 III. of this Report) | ||||
| Total | 6 | 6 | Nil. | Nil. |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable
under the Public Health Acts.
t 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
bean enforced.