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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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Factories, Workshops, Workplaces and Homework.
1.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 36 | 3 | — |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 30 | – | – |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | 6 | 1 | – |
| Total | 72 | 4 | — |
2.—
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 4 | 4 | – | – |
| Want of Ventilation | – | – | – | –_ |
| Overcrowding | – | – | – | – |
| Want of drainage of floors | – | – | – | –_ |
| Other Nuisances | 7 | 7 | – | – |
| Sanitary accommodation:— | ||||
| Insufficient | 2 | 1 | – | –_ |
| Unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | – | – |
| Not separate for sexes | – | – | – | – |
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S.101) | ||||
| Other Offences:— | – | – | – | – |
| Excluding offences under the sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order 1921 | – | – | – | – |
| Total | 15 | 14 | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.