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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

Wandsworth 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Factories and Workshops. 85

Table: TABLE XLT.DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

TABLE XLT.

DETAILS WITH REGARD TO REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.

Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1)Number. (2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here.Workshop Bakehouses51
Workshop Laundries31
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops161
Bootmakers101
Smiths and Engineers37
Builders56
Tailors68
Motor Engineers53
Upholsterers39
Hairdressers31
Other189
Total number of workshops on Register817

Table: TABLE XLII.DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

TABLE XLII.

DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.

Particulars.Number of Defects.No. of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—*
Want of cleanliness5241--
Want of ventilation——--
Overcrowding——--
Want of drainage of floors——--
Other Nuisances1110--
Sanitary accommodation :
Insufficient11--
Unsuitable or defective5039--
Not separate for sexes11--
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Acts :—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouses (s. 101)----
Other offences——--
(Excluding offences relating to outwork and offences under the Sections mentioned in the Schedule to the Ministry of Health (Factories and Workshops Transfer of Powers) Order, 1921)
Total11592--

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* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.