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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS.
Table A.
Table giving number and inspections, etc., of Bakehouse; Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, places where food is prepared, Mil premises, Cowsheds, Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Crear premises, and Homeworkers' premises.
| Premises. | On Register during year 1930. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 47 | _ | 47 | 185 | 97 | 8 | 1 | __ |
| Bakehouses (W orkshops) | 23 | — | 23 | 106 | 53 | 1 | - | — |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 6 | - | 6 | 17 | 12 | - | _ | _ |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | 24 | 125 | 149 | 129 | 10 | 1 | - | - |
| Laundries (Workshops) | — | 4 | 4 | 4 | — | — | - | — |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | - | __ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Workshops | 190 | 11S | 308 | 393 | 30 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 16 | 9 | 25 | 30 | — | 1 | - | — |
| Workplaces | 345 | 1 | 346 | 445 | 39 | 14 | 1 | — |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 49 | — | 49 | 73 | 5 | 2 | _ | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 792* | _ | 792* | 1986 | 408 | 25 | 4 | _ |
| Milk Premises | 118 | — | 118 | 267 | 6 | 1 | — | — |
| Cowsheds | 3 | — | 3 | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses (a) | 9 | — | 9 | 52 | 34 | — | — | |
| Other offensive trade premises | 7† | _ | 70† | 6 | 1 | _ | - | - |
| Ice Cream premises | 112 † | — | 112+ | 251 | 9 | — | — | — |
| Homeworkers' premises | 7 | 558 | 565 | 915 | 1 | |||
* Power is used in 67 of these premises.
‡ M M ,, ,,
(a) Includes two registered Slaughterers of Poultry (12, Coborn Road, and
221, Roman Road).
† Registered by the London County Council. 8 offensive trades oarried on;
Fur Skin Dressers, 4.
Soap Boiler, 1.
Fat Boilers, 2.
Tallow Melter, 1.
1 premises used for two offensive trades. (Fat Boiler and Tallow Melter.)