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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

Tottenham 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham District]

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40
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT. 1901.
In compliance with section 132, I have to submit a resume of
the work effected during the year—under the provisions of the above
Act—in the form prescribed by the Home Office :
1.—Inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.

Table: Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.

PremisesNumber of
InspectionsWritten NoticesProsecutions
Factories (including Factory Laundries)24220...
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)341
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report)
Total58320...

Table: 2.— Defects Found.

2.— Defects Found.

ParticularsNumber of DefectsNumber of Prosecutions
FoundRemediedReferred to H.M. Inspector
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts*—
Want of Cleanliness3730......
Want of ventilation22......
Overcrowding ... ... ......11......
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances66......
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient ......33......
unsuitable or defective33......
not separate for sexes22......
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101)............
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (s.s. 97 to 100)............
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this Report)............
Tota5454......
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts.