Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 20
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
Premises.
Number
Inspections.
Written
Notices.
Prosecutions.
Factories (including Factory Laundries)
308
53
...
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)
590
81
...
Workplaces
6206
274
...
Homeworkers' Promises (including Outworkers)
215
2
...
Total
7379
410
...
2.—Defeats Found.
Particulars.
Number of Defects.
Number
of Prosecutions.
Found.
Remedied.
Referred
to H.M.
Inspector.
*Nuisances under the Public Health
Acts:—
Want of Cleanliness
276
291
...
...
Want of Ventilation
7
12
...
...
Overcrowding
2
2
...
...
Want of drainage of floors
1
1
...
...
Other nuisances
353
380
...
...
Sanitary accommodations:
Insufficient
3
1
...
...
Unsuitable or defective
43
44
...
...
Not separate for sexes
2
1
...
...
Offences under the Factory and Work
shop Act:—
Illegal occupation of underground
bakehouse (S. 101)
...
...
...
...
Breach of special sanitary requirements
for bakehouses (SS. 97-100)
...
...
...
...
Other offences
103
103
...
...
Total
790
835
...
...
Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable
under the Public Health Acts,