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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table C. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. I.—INSPECTION.
| Premiaes. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Factories | 412 | Intimation. 124 | Statutory 2 | Final. 1 | — |
| (Including Factory ,Bakehouses and Laundries) Workshops† | 451 | 73 | 10 | 1 | — |
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) Domestic Workshops‡ | 39 | 11 | 2 | — | |
| Workplaces | 464 | 54 | 5 | 1 | — |
| Domestic Workplaces | 96 | 10 | 1 | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or pre-pared§ | 1842 | 387 | 11 | 3 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 764 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Total | 4068 | 660 | 32 | 6 | — |
† Including Workshop Bakehouses.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used in 84 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND * (Corresponding figures for 1930 are shown in italics).
| Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pound. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4) | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 590 (614) | 590 1614 | |||
| Want of ventilation | 14 (2> | 14 (2) | |||
| Overcrowding | 1 — | 1 — | |||
| Want of drainage of Floors | 2 14 | 2(4) | |||
| Other nuisances | 47 (84) | 47 (84) | |||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 11 (4) | 11 (4) | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 25 (15) | 25 (15) | |||
| not separate for sexes | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | |||
| 4 | 4 | ||||
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report .) | |||||
| Total | 695 (726) | 691 (726) | 4 | .. | |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.