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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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Table C. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories | 608 | 154 | 7 | 2 | — |
| (Including Factory Bakehouses | |||||
| and Laundries) | |||||
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 292 | 49 | 1 | — | — |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 15 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Workplaces | 558 | 65 | 10 | 5 | — |
| Domestic Workplaces | 53 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or pre-pared§ | 1,498 | 352 | 3 | 2 | |
| Homeworkers'Premises | 690 | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 3,714 | 627 | 21 | 10 | — |
† Including Workshop Bakehouses.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used in 93 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.* (Corresponding figures for 1933 are shown in brackets).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 569 (639) | 569 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — (1) | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding Want of drainage of floors | - (1) 2 (3) | — 2 | — — | — — | |
| Other nuisances (insufficient | 92 (106) 3 (2) | 92 3 | — | — — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | unsuitable or defec- tive | 35 (32) | 32 | — | — |
| not separate for sexes | 1 (9) | 1 | — | — | |
| — | |||||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) | — | — | — | — | |
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) | — | — | — | — | |
| Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report.) | 5 (16) | — | 5 | — | |
| Total | 707 (809) | 699 | 5 | — | |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.