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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Premises. | Number of | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 123 | 14 | 5 | ... | ... |
Workshops † (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 777 | 76 | 31 | 7 | 2 |
Domestic Workshops‡ | 124 | 19 | 3 | ... | ... |
Workplaces (Males) | 251 | 32 | 7 | 1 | ... |
Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 41 | 7 | 3 | 2 | ... |
Places where food is sold or prepared || | 926 | 109 | 28 | 5 | ... |
Homeworkers' Premises | 1,649 | 2 | 1 | ... | |
Total | 3,896 | 259 | 78 | 15 | 2 |
*Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 72.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A. page 72.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 22 of the premises.
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
473 | 473 | ... | ... | ||
Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | ... | ... | |
Overcrowding | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Want of drainage of floors | |||||
Other nuisances | 305 | 305 | ... | 2 | |
Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | ... | ... | ... | ... |
unsuitable or defec- tive | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | |
not separate for sexes | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
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 | 783 | 783 | 2 |
*These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.
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