[Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Rotherham County Borough.

Rotherham (England). County Borough Council.

Date:: 1935

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Credit: [Report 1935] / Medical Officer of Health, Rotherham County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. The number of workshops on the register at the end of 1935 is set out below :— Workshops and workplaces (excluding bakehouses) ... 39 Bakehouses (including factory bakehouses) ... ... 23 92 Details of inspection, including inspections made by the health visitors, are given herewith :— Premises. Inspections. Written. notices. Verbal. notices. Factories (including factory laundries) ... 34 3 5 Workshops (including workshop laundries) 110 2 9 Workplaces (other than outworkers’ premises)... — — — 144 5 14 In the following statement, particulars of the defects found are given :—• Particulars. Number of defects Found. Remedied. Want of cleanliness 14 13 Defective sanitary accommodation 3 3 Sanitary accommodation not separate for sexes 1 1 Want of cleanliness due to accumulation of containers 1 1 Insufficient paving 1 1 Defective drainage of premises. 1 1 © 21 20 The limewashing of a men’s workshop had not been completed by the end of the year.