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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
Southwark 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 22.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
| Premises. | Number. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 367 | 57 | .. |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 582 | 63 | .. |
| Workplaces | 4361 | 238 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers) | 346 | 1 | .. |
| Total | 5656 | 359 | .. |
2.—Defects Found.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 199 | 175 | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 5 | 9 | .. | |
| Overcrowding | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
| Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Other nuisances | 358 | 327 | .. | .. |
| Sanitary accommodations: | ||||
| Insufficient | 2 | 9 | .. | .. |
| Unsuitable or defective | 22 | 21 | .. | .. |
| Not separate for sexes | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | ||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse(S. 101) | .. | .. | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS .97 -100) | 42 | 42 | .. | .. |
| Other offences | .. | .. | ||
| Total | 629 | 584 | .. | .. |
| Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts. | ||||
WOMEN'S WORKSHOPS.
The supervision of the Women's Workshops was carried out during
the year by Miss Burrows.
731 inspections and 655 re-inspections were made.
The following defects were discovered, and 11 intimations and 6
statutory notices were served in order to obtain the abatement of the
nuisances complained of :—
Closet provided 5
Water apparatus defective 8
Roofs defective 6
Paving defective 1
Rooms dirty 62
Cloiset Pans and Traps 3
Overcrowding -
Miscellaneous nuisances 44
Total 129
All the above-mentioned nuisances were remedied.
Miss Burrows also made 1,677 inspections of the women's conveniences
throughout the Borough.