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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1.—INSPECTION.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | ||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries) | 17 | — | — | |
| Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries) | 39 | 1 | — | |
| Workplaces (Other than Outworkere' premises included in Part 3 of this Report) | — | — | — | |
| Total | 56 | 1 | — | |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:—1 Want of Cleanliness | 29 | 29 | — | — |
| Want of Ventilation | — | — | — | — |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — |
| Want of drainage floors | — | — | — | — |
| Other Nuisances | — | — | — | — |
| Sanitary accommodation Insufficient | — | — | — | — |
| Unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Not separate for sexes | — | — | — | — |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | — | — | — | — |
| Other Offences:— Excluding offences u» der the sections mentioned in the ScheSule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order 1921 | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 31 | 31 | — | — |
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8, of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.