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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TABLE C* See footnote, page. 74. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Home workers.
Premises. | Number of | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 126 | 28 | 4 | ... | ... |
Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 453 | 53 | 15 | 2 | ... |
Domestic Workshops ‡ | 80 | 11 | 2 | ... | ... |
Workplaces (Males) | 273 | 19 | 5 | 1 | ... |
Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 30 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ... |
Places where food is sold or prepared || | 705 | 84 | 13 | 5 | ... |
Homeworkers Premises | 1,108 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Total | 2,775 | 200 | 42 | 9 | ... |
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 16 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND *
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
427 | 427 | ... | ... | ||
Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | ...... | ... | |
Overcrowding | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
Other nuisances | 254 | 254 | ... | ... | |
Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 |
unsuitable or defective | 3 | 3 | ... | ... | |
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 | 689 | 689 | 1 |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.
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