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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 1946

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]

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FACTORIES AND BAKEHOUSES .
The total number of factories on the register at the end of
the year was 220.

Table: The businesses carried on at the respective premises were as follows:-

The businesses carried on at the respective premises were as follows:-

Bakehouses18
Laundries7
Tailors7
Engineers (various)58
Printers7
Builders and Joiners25
Boot Repairers11
Motor Engineers13
Radio and Cycle Repairers/Makers15
Miscellaneous59

Table: 113 visits wore made to factories and to bakehouses, and as a result the following works were carried out to remedy contraventions:-

113 visits wore made to factories and to bakehouses, and as a result the following works were carried out to remedy contraventions:-

Sanitary Conveniences.
Additional W.Cs. provided6
Cleansed or repaired2
New pans fixed4
Flushing cisterns repaired or renewed6
New baths, sinks, etc. fixed2
General.
Drains - additional provided3
New waste pipes provided2
Service pipes and cisterns repaired, etc.1
Drains cleansed2
windows repaired or renewed1
External walls pointed or rendered2
Accumulations removed2
Miscellaneous3

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One certificate was issued under section 34 of the Factories
Act 1937, that the factory to which it related is provided with
such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed
there in as may be reasonably required in the circumstances of the
case.
There were 37 outworkers on the register at the end of the
year. Five visits of inspection were made but no contraventions
found
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