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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
Battersea 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea, Metropolitan Borough of]
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Factories, Workshops, Workplaces
and Homework.
1. - Inspections of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces (including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances).
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 760 | 105 | 1 |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 844 | 111 | - |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in the Table on page 92) | 1,924 | 71 | — |
| Total | 3,528 | 287 | 1 |
2. D efects found in F actories, W orkshops and W orkplaces.
| Particulars. | Found on Inspection. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Want of Cleanliness | 70 | 70 | -_ | |||
| Want of Ventilation | 4 | 4 | Nil. | - | ||
| Overcrowding | - | - | - | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 | 1 | - | |||
| Other nuisances | 94 | 94 | 1 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | Insufficient | 23 | 23 | - | ||
| Unsuitable or defective | 118 | 118 | - | |||
| Not separate for the sexes | 1 | 1 | - | |||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (Sec. 101) | - | |||||
| Lack of Special Sanitary Requirements to Bakehouses (Secs. 97 to 100) | 22 | 22 | - | |||
| Other Offences (excluding Offences relating to Outworkers which are included in the Table on page 92) | - | - | - | |||
| Total | 333 | 333 | - | 1 | ||