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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE C.*See footnote, page53.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.1 .—INSPECTION.

TABLE C.*

See footnote, page53.

Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.

1 .—INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories(Including Factory Laundries.)187295....
Workshops! ..(Including Workshop Laundries.)6529117....
Domestic Workshops506......
Workplaces (Males) ..359458....
Domestic Workplaces (Males)102941..
Places where food is sold or prepared!)1004159266..
Homeworkers'Premises1320762..
Total3674346669••

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* Tables ( C,D,E and are filled in at the request ot the secretary ot State,
Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 51.
Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 51.
The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power
is used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 25 of the premises.

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND *

2.—DEFECTS FOUND *

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5) .
Nuisances under the Public Health Act:
Want of cleanliness342342....
Want of ventilation11....
Overcrowding33....
Want of drainage of floors........
Other nuisances296296....
Sanitary accommodationinsufficient22....
unsuitable or defective2828....
not separate for sexes........
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—
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.)
Total672672....

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These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under of Inspection