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80 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1932.
TABLE XL.
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,
are enumerated
here.
' Workshop Bakehouses
51
Workshop Laundries
29
Dressmakers' and Milliners' Workshops
130
Bootmakers
108
Smiths and Engineers
44
Builders
60
Tailors
65
Motor Engineers
96
Upholsterers
30
Hairdressers
28
Other
116
Total number of workshops on Register
757
TABLE XLI.
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 cleanliness
35
23
—
-
Want of ventilation
3
2
—
-
Overcrowding
—
—
—
-
Want of drainage of floors
—
—
—
-
Other Nuisances
25
20
—
-
Sanitary accommodation:
Insufficient
3
-
-
-
Unsuitable or defective
49
29
—
-
Not separate for sexes
4
4
—
-
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)
Total
119
78
-
-
*Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.