Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 171.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 171.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power it
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 40 of the premises.
• These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.
TABLE C.*
See remarks in italics, page 167.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
I.—INSPECTION.
Premises. | Number of | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 58 | Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | .. |
.. | .. | .. | |||
Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 948† | 93 | 27 | 1 | .. |
Domestic Workshops‡ | 198 ‡ | 18 | 2 | 1 | .. |
Workplaces (Males) | 315 | 18 | 7 | 2 | .. |
Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 52 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. |
Places where food is sold or prepared || | 853|| | 103 | 13 | 1 | .. |
Homeworkers' Premises | 1773 | 13 | 5 | .. | .. |
Total | 4197 | 251 | 56 | 5 |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND. *
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H M. Inspector. | ||
(i) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
Want of cleanliness | 496 | 496 | ||
Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | ||
Overcrowding Want of drainage of floors | 4 | 4 | ||
Other nuisances | 207 | 207 | ||
insufficient | .. | .. | ||
0 unsuitable or defec-Sanitary . accommodation. | 3 | 3 | ||
not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | ||
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | ||||
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100). Other offences | ||||
(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report.) | ||||
Total | 713 | 713 |
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