London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Islington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories | 557 | 71 | .. |
| (Including Factory Laundries) Workshops | 2,557 | 292 | .. |
| (Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces | 1,500 | 262 | .. |
| (Other than Outworkers' premises included in Part 3 of this Report.) | |||
| Miscellaneous Re-inspections | 5,176 | .. | .. |
| Total | 9,790 | 625 | Nil |
* If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1, and sub divides his list in such a way as to show the number of workers in
each Class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be) against the principal class only, but the outworkers should
be assigned in coloumns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes. A footnote should be added to show that this has been done. 2
† The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of lists (received from employers who sent them both in February and August as required by -3
the Act) and of the entire of names of outworkers in those lists. They will, therefore, usually be double of the .number of such employers and (approximately)
willof ten be repeated. outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's name
Note. 45 addresses of Artificial Florists, with 8 addresses of Electro Plate Workers and 4 NetMakers are included in other lists.
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2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—* | |||||
| Want of cleanliness | 970 | 841 | .. | .. | |
| Want of ventilation | 31 | 28 | .. | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 9 | 9 | .. | .. | |
| Want of drainage of floors .. | 45 | 38 | .. | .. | |
| Other nuisances | 601 | 521 | .. | .. | |
| Accommodation | insufficient | 28 | 23 | .. | .. |
| unsuitable or defective | 198 | 180 | .. | .. | |
| foul | 375 | 349 | .. | .. | |
| not separate for sexes | 19 | 8 | .. | .. | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS. 97 to 100) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Other offences | 27 | 29 | .. | .. | |
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Part 3 of this report.) | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Total | 2,303 | 2,026 | Nil | Nil | |