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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 22.
| 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 | .. |
| 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 | .. | |
WOMEN'S WORKSHOPS.
The supervision of the Women's Workshops was carried out by Miss
Burrows to 4th February, 1936, and by Miss G. Briggs to the end of the
year.
558 inspections and 490 re-inspections were made.
The following defects were discovered, and 21 intimations and 4
statutory notices were served in order to obtain the abatement of the
nuisances complained of:—
Water apparatus defective 21
Roofs defective 2
Rooms dirty 37
Closet Pans and Traps 39
Miscellaneous nuisances 34
Total 133
All the above-mentioned nuisances were remedied.