Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.
Premises. | Number of | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
Factories | 412 | 140 | 1 | 1 | — |
(Including Factory Bakehouses and Laundries) Workshops† | 408 | 78 | 3 | 1 | — |
(Including Workshop Laundries.) Domestic Workshops‡ | 33 | 8 | 1 | — | — |
Workplaces | 509 | 77 | 15 | — | — |
Domestic Workplaces | 53 | 5 | — | — | — |
Places where food is sold or prepared§ | 1967 | 342 | 2 | — | — |
Homeworkers' Premises | 620 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Total | 4002 | 651 | 23 | 2 | — |
† Including Workshop Bakehouses.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used in 87 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND* (Corresponding figures for 1931 are shown in italics).
Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Found. | Remedied | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Prosecutions. | |||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | ||
Nuisances under the Public Health Act: Want of cleanliness | 580 | (590) | 580 | — | — | |
Want of ventilation | — | (14) | — | — | — | |
Overcrowding | — | (1) | — | — | — | |
Want of drainage of floors | — | 12) | — | — | — | |
Other nuisances | 112 | (47) | 112 | — | — | |
Sanitary recommodation | insufficient | 5 | (11) | 5 | — | — |
unsuitable or defective | 23 | (25) | 23 | — | — | |
not separate for sexes | 4 | (1) | 4 | — | — | |
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 | — | (4) | — | — | — | |
(Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report.) | ||||||
Total | 724 | (695) | 724 | — | .. |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.