[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Hove U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Hove (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1904
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Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Hove U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901. The Medical Officer of Health is required to report annually on the administration of the Factory and Worksop Act, 1901, only in so far as this administration is in the hands of tke District Council and is concerned with matters in his department. The Secretary of State has tin's year, for the first time, prepared a special form for reporting the work done under this Act, which will make it easier in tlie future to compare one year with those pre- ceding it. Workshops.—There is an increase of 19 workshops as compared with last year. It is the practice of the Inspectors to measure up the workrooms to ascertain their cubic content, and to affix to each a card stating how many persons may he employed therein. In spite of this precaution, two cases of wilful overcrowding were discovered, which were forthwith abated when the occupier’s attention was called to the fact. One of these cases of overcrowding wras further aggravated by reason of a gas ironing apparatus, the fumes from which passed directly into the workroom, causing the air to he greatly vitiated. A hopper was later on placed over this and the fumes condncted into the chimney. In five instances statutory notices were granted by the Sanitary Committee for the abatement of nuisancs found in workshops; prose- cutions did not follow as the work was done within the specified time. In 8 cases of default in making returns of outworkers, statu- tory notices were sent which produced the desired result. Domestic Workshops (in which the only persons employed are members of the same family). A record is kept of 118 of such premises, all of which have been specially inspected. Three nuisances were discovered, this small number being due to the fact that a systematic house inspection had recently been carried out in the district where these premises are mostly situated.