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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 24.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Homework.
1.—Inspection (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors).
| Premises. | Number. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 276 | 9 | .. |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 350 | 24 | .. |
| Workplaces | 69 | 9 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers) | 225 | .. | .. |
| Total | 920 | 42 | |
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 | 73 | 53 | ||
| Want of Ventilation | .. | 1 | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 1 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Other nuisances | 54 | 35 | .. | .. |
| Sanitary accommodations: | .. | |||
| Insufficient | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Unsuitable or defective | 28 | 19 | .. | .. |
| Not separate for sexes | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101) | .. | .. | ||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (SS .97-100) Other offences | 86 | 86 | .. | .. |
| Total | 243 | 196 | .. | .. |
WOMEN'S WORKSHOPS.
The supervision of the Women's Workshops was carried out during
the year by Miss Burrows.
410 inspections and 426 re-inspections were made.
The following defects were discovered, and 3 intimations and 4
statutory notices were served in order to obtain the abatement of the
nuisances complained of:—
Water apparatus defective
12
Roofs defective
3
Rooms dirty
52
Closet Pans and Traps
7
Miscellaneous nuisances
36
Total
110
All the above-mentioned nuisances were remedied.
Miss Burrows also made 1,377 inspections of the women's con
veniences throughout the Borough.