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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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WATER SUPPLIES TO TENEMENT HOUSES.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1907.
42 additional water supplies were provided to houses during the
year 1934.
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) .. | 216 | 17 | |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 259 | 19 | .. |
| Workplaces | 45 | 10 | ., |
| Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers) | 206 | •. | |
| Total | 726 | 46 | |
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 | 31 | 50 | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 2 | 1 | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 1 | 1 | . . | . . |
| Want of drainage of floors.. | . . | . , | . . | . . |
| Other nuisances | 47 | 62 | ||
| Sanitary accommodations: | ||||
| Insufficient | 8 | 5 | .. | |
| Unsuitable or defective | 28 | 35 | . . | .. |
| Not separate for sexes | 1 | 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) Other offences | 68 | 68 | .. | .. |
| Total | 186 | 223 | . . | |
| .Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as remediable under the Public Health Acts. | ||||