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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, WORKPLACES
AND HOMEWORK.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 6 | ||
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 91 | 2 | |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part III. of this Report) | |||
| Total | 97 | 2 | |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 2 | 2 | ||
| Want of Ventilation | ||||
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | |||
| Other Nuisances | 7 | 11 | ||
| Sanitary accommodation— | . | |||
| Insufficient | 1 | 1 | ||
| Unsuitable or defective. | 6 | |||
| Not separate for sexes | 1 | |||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100). | 11 | 11 | ||
| Total | 24 | 34 | ||
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7, and 8, of the Factory
and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.
The number of defects remedied during the year include those
which were outstanding at the end of 1909.
87