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Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1907
Registers.—2,215 workshops and workplaces, exclusive of outworkers'
premises, are at present on the registers, as compared with 2,116 in the
preceding year. These workshops and workplaces contain 3,333 rooms.
There are also on the register 1,989 outworkers' premises, consisting of
the same number of rooms, so that altogether there were 5,322 rooms on the
register at the end of the year.
Sanitation.—The sanitary work with respect to the factories and workshops
and other workplaces was, as usual, of an effective character, as no less
than 2,303 defects were discovered, of which 2,026 had been remedied at the
end of the year.
Since 1896 something like 17,507 serious offences against sanitation have
been discovered and remedied. This is a very great volume of work, and
shows that the Inspectors engaged on it have not been idle.
The particulars of these inspections and visits are as follows:—
| Factories, including Factory Laundries | 557 |
| Workshops, including Workshop Laundries | 2,557 |
| Workplaces other than Outworkers' Premises | 133 |
| Bakehouses | 621 |
| Restaurant Kitchens | 746 |
| Outworkers' Premises | 937 |
| Miscellaneous re-inspections and calls | 5,176 |
| 10,727 |
Cleanliness.—The reports of the inspectors show that 970 premises were
uncleanly, of which 841 had been remedied at the end of the year. This
number compares with 497 in the preceding year, and 490 in 1905. So great
an increase is due to the fact that two lady inspectors are now at work where
only one was employed previously, and, therefore, it is only natural that the
amount of work should have increased.