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Poplar 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table C.
See note, page 38.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 324 | 107 | 9 | 1 | — |
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 503 | 83 | 9 | 1 | |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 47 | 12 | 1 | - | — |
| Workplaces | 445 | 39 | 14 | 1 | - |
| Domestic Workplaces | 73 | 5 | 2 | — | |
| Places where food is sold or prepared§ | 1986 | 408 | 25 | 4 | - |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 915 | 1 | - | - | — |
| Total | 4293 | 655 | 60 | 7 . t .. . | — |
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 36.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 36.
§ The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power
is used in 67 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND* (Corresponding figures for 1929 are shown in italics).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 614 (694) | 614 1694) | .. | .. | |
| Want of ventilation | 2 (1) | 2 (1) | .. | .. | |
| Overcrowding | — (2) | - (2) | .. | .. | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 4 I4) | 4 (4) | |||
| Other nuisances.. | 84 (187) | 84 (187) | .. | .. | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 4 (8) | 4 (8) | .. | .. |
| unsuitable or defective | 15 (126) | 15 (126) | .. | .. | |
| not separate for sexes | 3 (5) | 3 (5) | .. | .. | |
| 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 | 726(1027) | 726 (1027) | .. | .. | |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.