[Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.

  • Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1915
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Credit: [Report 1915] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    54 workshops, including 6 bakehouses, have been placed on the register during the year, making a total of 476 up to the end of 1915, of which 55 are bakehouses and 49 are confectioners’ shops. 21 workshops have been closed. 4 workshops have been transferred to more suitable premises. 58 nuisances in connection with workshops have been reported and abated. 7 notices have been served for the abatement of nuisances arising out of defective drainage, and 4 for inefficient ventilation. 18 notices to cleanse and lime wash the workshops have been served and complied with. 458 occupiers of workshops have limewashed their premises under inspection, but without waiting for the formal notice. No case of overcrowding has been reported during the year. 10 failures to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshops Act (s. 133), have been reported and dealt with. Lists of out-workers have been carefully kept, and notices in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State, as given in my Report for 1892 (pp. 57 and 58), have been served when necessary. Laundries.—239 visits were made during the year to the 52 laundries at present on the register.