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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
West Ham 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Nuisances and other Offences dealt with in
connection with Factories, Workshops, and
Homeworkers' Premises.
Nuisances and other Offences dealt with in connection with Factories, Workshops, and Homeworkers' Premises.
| Number of Homeworkers'Premises inspected during the year 835 | ||
| Number of Notices served 185 | ||
| Factories and Workshops. | Home-workers' Premises. | |
| Dirty yards | 8 | 15 |
| „ houses | — | 16 |
| Dirty and defective walls and ceilings | 195 | 553 |
| ,, „ floors | 16 | 18 |
| Defective guttering | 18 | 51 |
| „ flush tanks | 16 | 21 |
| yard paving | 15 | 43 |
| „ roofs | 15 | 24 |
| ,, water-closet pans | 8 | 16 |
| „ windows and sash lines | 8 | 25 |
| „ water fittings | 3 | 10 |
| „ drains | 3 | 4 |
| „ coppers | 2 | 12 |
| „ doors | 1 | 9 |
| „ stairs | 4 | 21 |
| „ sink waste | _ | 7 |
| „ external brickwork | _ | 17 |
| Choked drains | 3 | 10 |
| Workrooms overcrowded | 6 | 3 |
| No dust receptacle | 10 | 20 |
| Damp walls | 5 | 7 |
| No homeworkers'lists kept | 8 | _ |
| Workrooms insufficiently ventilated | 8 | 2 |
| Noxious fumes from gas stoves | 3 | _ |
| Unsuitable water-closet accommodation | 12 | _ |
| No separate accommodation for sexes | 1 | _ |
| Bedrooms overcrowded and ill ventilated | 4 | _ |
| Over employment | 3 | — |
| No fixed time for meals | 2 | —- |
| Floors undrained | 8 | — |
| No Abstract Exhibited | 17 | — |
| 402 | 904 | |