Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham District]
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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.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises | Number of | ||
---|---|---|---|
Inspections | Written Notices | Prosecutions | |
Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 242 | 20 | ... |
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 341 | ||
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | |||
Total | 583 | 20 | ... |
2.—
Particulars | Number of Defects | Number of Prosecutions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found | Remedied | Referred to H.M. Inspector | |||
Want of Cleanliness | 37 | 30 | ... | ... | |
Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | |
Overcrowding ... ... ...... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | |
Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Other nuisances | 6 | 6 | ... | ... | |
Sanitary accommodation | insufficient ...... | 3 | 3 | ... | ... |
unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | |
not separate for sexes | 2 | 2 | ... | ... | |
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) | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Tota | 54 | 54 | ... | ... | |
* Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts. |