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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 1936
[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)
415
36
..
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)
302
37
..
Workplaces
167
45
Homeworkers' Premises (including Outworkers)
514
..
..
Total
1398
118
..
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
33
27
..
..
Want of Ventilation
3
2
..
..
Overcrowding
..
..
..
..
Want of drainage of floors
1
..
..
..
Other nuisances
77
63
..
..
Sanitary accommodations:
Insufficient
33
9
..
..
Unsuitable or defective
207
193
..
..
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)
Other offences
147
147
..
..
Total
502
441
..
..
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory Act as
remediable under the Public Health Acts.