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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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Mr. C. A. Grabham.
| Totals. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Intimations. | Notices. | ||
| Stat. | Final. | |||
| No. of Inspections of: | ||||
| Bakehouses— | ||||
| Factories | 96 | 58 | — | — |
| Workshops | 28 | 19 | — | — |
| Dom. Workshops | 6 | 4 | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 67 | 12 | — | — |
| Cowhouses | 9 | — | — | — |
| Milkshops | 142 | — | — | — |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 131 | 4 | — | — |
| Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers— | ||||
| Where power is used | 84 | 58 | — | — |
| Others | 152 | 118 | — | — |
| Stalls | 1,205 | — | — | — |
| Other Places where Food is sold, etc.— Where power is used | 49 | 5 | ||
| Others | 164 | 4 | — | —- |
| Ice Cream Premises— | ||||
| Where power is used | 20 | — | — | — |
| Others | 121 | — | — | — |
| Wharves, etc., where Food is prepared or stored, etc.— | ||||
| Where power is used | 6 | — | — | — |
| Others | 23 | — | — | — |
| Markets— | ||||
| Morning | 155 | — | — | — |
| Evening | 81 | — | — | — |
| Miscellaneous | 234 | - | - | - |
| Defects, etc., Found: | Total Defects, etc., | |||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to D.S.I. | ||
| 1. Nuisances under Public Health (London ) Act— | ||||
| Want of oleanliness | 15 | 15 | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 25 | 18* | 7 | |
| 2. Offences under Factory and Workshop Act | — | — | — | |
* 6 without service of Intimations.