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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factory and Workshop Acts.
| Premises. | On Register during year 1934. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 55 | — | 55 | 245 | 110 | — | — | — |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 20 | — | 20 | 74 | 44 | 1 | — | — |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 2 | — | 2 | 6 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Factories (Laundries | — | |||||||
| and Miscellaneous Factories) | 120 | 127 | 247 | 363 | 44 | 7 | 2 | — |
| Laundries (Workshops) | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Workshops | 201 | 74 | 275 | 216 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Workshops (Domestic).. | 22 | — | 22 | 15 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Workplaces | 383 | 16 | 399 | 558 | 65 | 10 | 5 | — |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 45 | — | 45 | 53 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 828* | — | 828* | 1498 | 352 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Milk Premises | 112 | — | 112 | 376 | — | — | — | — |
| Cowsheds | 3 | — | 3 | 36 | — | — | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses (a) | 8 | — | 8 | 85 | 32 | — | — | — |
| Other offensive trade premises | 5 | — | 5 | 100 | 8 | 2 | — | — |
| Ice Cream premises | 211‡ | — | 21 ‡ | 329 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Homeworkers' premises | 17 | 467 | 484 | 690 | — | — | — | — |
* Power is used in 93 of these premises.
‡ „ „ 38 „ „
(a) Includes three registered Slaughterers of Poultry.
(Lists of Slaughterhouses and other offensive trade premises are given
on page 35.)