[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City.

  • Aberdeen (Scotland). City Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Aberdeen City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WORKSHOPS. (Table XI.) The number of workshops registered at the end of the year was 1,233, as against 1,190 at the end of the preceding year. The following tabular summary of the work done during the year, by the Sanitary Staff, in the inspection and regulation of factories and workshops, has been prepared in accordance with the re- quirements of the Secretary of State :— Table XI.—Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, and Homework. 1.—Inspection. No. of No. of No. of Premises. Inspections. Written Notices. Prosecutions. Factories (including Factory Laundries), . 245 21 — Workshops (including Workshop Laundries), . 1,669 285 — Workplaces, ........ 86 o — Homeworkers’ Premises, ...... 104 0 — Total, ...... 2,104 308 — 2.—Defects Found. Number of Defects. s Number of Referred to Particulars. Found. Remedied. H.M. Prosecutions. Inspector. JXuisances under the Fublic Health Acts:— Want of cleanliness, ....... 177 143 — — Want of ventilation, ....... 9 5 — — Overcrowding, ........ 2 2 — — Want of drainage of floors, ..... — — — — Other nuisances, ....... 46 21 — — t insufficient, 12 8 — — Sanitary accommodation-^ unsuitable or defective, 56 23 — — 1 not separate for sexes, 6 4 — — Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101), Breach of special sanitary requirements for bake- — — — — houses (SS. 97 to 100), ..... — — — — Failure as regard lists of outworkers (S. 107), . — — — — Giving out work to be done/ unwholesome (S. 108), — — — — in premises which are \ infected (S. 110), — — — — Allowing wearing apparel to be made in premises infected by scarlet fever or smallpox (S. 109), . — — — — Other offences, ........ — — — — Total, 308 206