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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Factory and Workshop Acts.
Table A. Table giving number and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, places where food is prepared, Milk premises, Cowsheds, Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream premises, and Homeworkers' premises:—
Premises. | On Register during year 1933. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
Bakehouses (Factories) | 55 | - | 55 | 216 | 113 | - | - | - |
Bakehouses (Workshops) | 20 | - | 20 | 75 | 42 | - | - | - |
Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 2 | - | 2 | 6 | 4 | - | - | - |
Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | 110 | 120 | 230 | 392 | 36 | 7 | 2 | - |
Laundries (Workshops) | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Workshops | 197 | 81 | 278 | 360 | 25 | 6 | - | - |
Workshops (Domestic) | 17 | - | 17 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - |
Workplaces | 370 | 27 | 397 | 929 | 88 | 12 | 3 | - |
Workplaces (Domestic) | 45 | - | 45 | 114 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - |
Places where food is sold or prepared | 823* | - | 823 | 1511 | 366 | - | - | - |
Milk Premises | 109 | - | 109 | 319 | 1 | - | - | - |
Cowsheds | 3 | - | 3 | 27 | - | - | - | - |
Slaughterhouses (a) | 8 | - | 8 | 42 | 33 | - | - | - |
Other offensive trade premises | 5 | - | 5 | 67 | 2 | - | - | - |
Ice Cream premises | 189‡ | - | 189 | 345 | 4 | - | - | - |
Homeworkers' premises | 15 | 493 | 508 | 496 | 1 | - | - | - |
*Power is used in 88 of these premises. |
‡ ,, ,, 32 ,, ,,
(a) Includes three registered Slaughterers of Poultry.
(Lists of Slaughterhouses and other offensive trade premises are given
on page 36.)