[Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough.
- Chatham (Kent, England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1904
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1904] / Medical Officer of Health, Chatham Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The chief points on which I have to report may be thus (;lassifiecl:— (1.) Sanitary condition of Workshops and Workplaces, including: (//) Cleanliness. (/>) Air Space. (r) Ventilation. (d) Drainage of Floors on which wet processes are carried on. Provision of suitable and sufficient Sanitary Conveniences. (2.) Special Sanitary regulations for bakehouses. (3.) Home Work. - The prevention of home work being carried on in dwellings which are injurious or dangerous to the health of the workers through overcrowding, want of ventilation,or other sanitary defects, or in dwellings in which dangerous infectious disease exists. (4.) The keeping of lists of Out-workers in certain branches of industry, which are furnished by employers, and the transmission of the name and place of employment of any such out-worker who does not re- side in the district to the Council of the district for which he works. (5.) The keeping of a Register of Workshops. The total number of Non-textile Factories on the Register is 2.S, of Workshops 206, Bakehouses and Kitchens of Restaurants 28, Work- places 7o. In the case of such Factories and Workshops as employ men exclu- sively, routine inspections have been made by your Chief Sanitary Inspec- tor, and in all places where female labour is employed, and also in the homes of outworkers by your Woman Inspector. Written details of this work are submitted to your Medical Officer of Health, who visits as re- quired from time to time. The Home Office Table which is attached gives particulars of a general nature respecting the numbei of ins])ections made, and work carried out, but tlie following table will be of interest in showing the various industries in the District. The list is entirely concerned with male employment, NON-TEXTILE FACTORIES. Bakehouse, 1 ; Bookbinders, 1 ; Electrical Works, 2 ; Mineral Water Works, 6 ; Joinery and Saw, 6 ; Printing, 5 ; Tobacco, 1 ; Flour, 2 ; Engineering, 1 ; Soap Melting. 1 ; Blanket Washing. 2. WORKSHOPS.--Cabinet Makers, 7 ; Upholsters. 3; Polisliers, 2: Brass Finishers and Polishers, 2 ; Plund)ers. 4 ; Painters, 2 ; Modellers, 1 ; Saddlers, 5; Sweet Makers, 5; Rag Merchants, &:c., 1; Cycle Works,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29098853_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
