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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 1935
[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) | 267 | 25 | .. |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 224 | 11 | .. |
| Workplaces | 90 | 18 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers) | 302 | .. | .. |
| Total | 883 | 54 | .. |
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | ||
| *Nuisances under the Public Health Acts:— | ||||
| Want of Cleanliness | 57 | 50 | ||
| Want of Ventilation | 3 | 3 | .. | |
| Overcrowding | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Other nuisances | 109 | 94 | .. | .. |
| Sanitary accommodations: | ||||
| Insufficient | 6 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Unsuitable or defective | 49 | 34 | .. | .. |
| Not separate for sexes | 4 | .. | .. | .. |
| 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 | 101 | 101 | .. | .. |
| Total | 329 | 285 | .. | .. |
*Including those specified in Sections 2,3,7 and 8 of the Factory Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts.