[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough].

  • Holborn (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1931
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    27 Factories. These visits also afforded all opportunity for extending and revising information relating to factories in the Borough. Steps are being taken for the gradual compilation of a register of such places, and at the end of the year 436 factories were on the register. Workshops are automatically converted, at a very small cost, into factories by the installation of a small electric motor; the health conditions then may 110 longer be inspected by the Borough Council's staff except as regards sanitary accommodation. The 436 factories include 50 different industries. In 210 cases men only were employed, in 18 women only, and in 208 both sexes. The more important industries carried on in these factories are :— Bookbinding 19 Engineering 46 Jewellers' work 13 Metal work 11 Printing 98 The following is a summary in tabular form of the work done by the Inspectors in factories, workshops and workplaces in the year 1930: — Mr. Bennett. Mr. Clark Mr. Larard. Miss Charles worth. Total. Factories— Inspections 55 32 167 2 256 Re-inspections 2 8 9 19 Workshops— Inspections 105 65 188 17 375 Re-inspections 4 9 13 — 26 Workplaces— Inspections 24 23 63 3 113 Re-inspections 17 16 51 — 84 Offices— Inspections 3 3 7 — 13 Re-inspections - 1 - 1 Bakehouses— Inspections 26 16 8 — 50 Restaurants— Inspections 123 31 195 — 349 Re-inspections 13 1 6 — 20 Licensed Permises- Inspections 1 2 - - 3 Defects Found— Want of cleanliness 23 19 23 1 66 ,, ventilation 2 3 2 — 7 Accommodation for refuse 5 15 2 - 22 Accumulation of refuse 2 3 4 1 10 Sanitary accommodation Insufficient 2 1 1 - 4 Unsuitable 1 1 3 - 5 Defective 1 2 6 1 10 Not separate for sexes 1 4 4 — 9 Other nuisances 11 19 26 - 56 Total defects 48 67 71 3 189