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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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| 1930 Number of Lists received. | Number of Addresses of Outworkers. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class of Homework. | Due Feb. 1st. | Due Aug. 1st. | Forwarded to other Authorities. | Received from other Authorities. | ||||
| No. of Lists. | No. of Outworkers. | No. of Lists. | No. of Outworkers. | Due Feb. 1. | Due Aug. 1. | Due Feb. 1. | Due Aug. 1. | |
| Total | 46 | 407 | — | 449 | 227 | 336 | 389 | 325 |
| Tailoring | 38 | 334 | 37 | 321 | 267 | 244 | 351 | 325 |
| Shirtmaking | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | 12 | |||||||
| Shoemakers | 1 | 30 | 1 | 24 | ||||
| Boxes | 4 | 12 | ||||||
| Overalls | 1 | 64 | 1 | 49 | ||||
| Workshops and Workplaces, etc., on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses may be enumerated here. | Bakehouse Workshops | 23 |
| Bakehouse Domestic Workshops | ||
| Laundries Workshops | 4 | |
| Laundries Domestic Workshops | — | |
| Workshops | 308 | |
| Domestic Workshops | 25 | |
| Workplaces | 346 | |
| Workplaces Domestic | 49 | |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 792† | |
| Total number of workshops and workplaces, etc., on Register | 1553‡ | |
†Power is used in 67 of these premises.
‡ See Tables A and B, pages 36 and 37.
| Class. | Number. | |
|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | _ | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 14 | |
| (8 sent in 1931) | ||
| Other (Communications) | ||
| Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):— | ||
| Certificates granted during the yea | — | |
| In use at the end of the year | 21 | |