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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
Holborn 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following is a list of the bakehouses in the Borough all of which are underground except those marked * :— St. Giles and Bloomsbury.
| *2 Bloomsbury Court. | 19 Little Earl Street. |
| 10 Bury Street. | 5 Little St. Andrew Street. |
| 164 Drury Lane. | 21 Marchmont Street. |
| 155 High Holborn. | 77 Marchmont Street. |
| 217 & 218 High Holborn (Holborn Restaurant). | 8 Museum Street. |
| 200 Shaftesbury Avenue. | |
| 63 High Street. | *15 Torrington Place. |
Holborn.
| 158 Clerkenwell Road. | *28 Lamb's Conduit Street. |
| *9 Cosmo Place. | *55 Mount Pleasant. |
| 13 Dane Street. | 19 Red Lion Street. |
| *4a East Street (Factory). | 50 Red Lion Street. |
| *51 Farringdon Road (Factory). | *74 Red Lion Street |
| 33 Great Ormond Street. | 92 Theobald's Road |
| 1 Greville Street. | 124 Theobald's Road |
| *91 Leather Lane (Factory). | *Viaduct Buildings, also 17 Charter |
| *6 Lamb's Conduit Street. | house Street (Factory). |
| 50 Lamb's Conduit Street. | 36 Warner Street. |
During the year, in addition to my inspections, there were 227 inspections
of bakehouses, including 36 inspections of the factory bakehouses.
Seven notices were served for various sanitary defects.
HOME WORK.
Details are given in the preceding Table, and in Table VIII. 3 of the
Appendix. Many inspections of homeworkers' premises are also made
during house to house and periodical inspections of lodging houses and
dwelling houses in which homeworkers reside.
Further details respecting factories, workshops, laundries, workplaces
and home work are given in Table VIII. (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) of the Appendix.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eatinghouses
of all sorts, slaughter-houses, tripe, offal and other meat shops, fried