[Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.

  • Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
Date:
1913
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Credit: [Report 1913] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3. Provision of lavatories: This matter is dealt with by His Majesty’s Inspector of Factories and Workshops. 4. Meal rooms are also dealt with in the same manner, although in a few instances these have been provided at the suggestion of the Corporation officials. 5. General ventilation. See return already sent to Home Office. 6. Air space. See Overcrowding, same return. 7. Floor space. We have no workshops to which this section applies. 8. Lighting. This matter has received attention, but no special record has been kept. 9. Temperature. This has been dealt with only in so far as 5 is concerned. 10. Wet floors. This is dealt with, but cases are infrequent. 11. Walls and ceilings. The requirements are systematically carried out, but the attention of the Inspectors will be specially called to the possible accumulation of dust. 12. Stability of buildings. This receives attention from the Special Depart¬ ment concerned. 13. Basements are discouraged. New ones are refused, or specifications are made out. Engines, etc. This would come under His Majesty’s Inspector of Factories and Workshops. HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. In the Annual Report for the year 1912, the procedure of the Housing Sub- Committee is fully given, and need not be repeated here. Table 1 summarises the detailed work carried out by the Housing Sub- Committee from the beginning of their operations in 1885 in the respective Sanitary Districts of the City,