Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report on the sanitary condition of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District with vital statistics]
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Summary of Notices and Improvements carried out at the differen.
Manufactories and Workshops in the Poplar and Bromley District, for the year ending December, 1893.
Nature of Nuisance. | Number of Notices served. | Cause of Nuisance. | How Remedied. |
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Smoke Nuisance | 37 | Burning of inferior fuel, and absence of smoke consuming apparatus. | A better class of fuel is now used. |
Smelting Works | 2 | Fumes from antimony smelting discharged into atmosphere. | In each case the works have been cleansed |
Smoke holes | 2 | Smoke nuisance from defective smoke holes. | The smoke holes have been repaired. |
Insufficient latrine accommodation in factories and workshops | 16 | In each case the latrine accommodation was insufficient. | Latrines on the most approved principle have been erected. |
Fish skin drying | 3 | Nuisance caused by scraping and drying fish skins. | In each case the works have been closed. |
Colour Works | 1 | Fumes from drying kilns, discharged into the atmosphere. | A condensing apparatus has been fitted up. |
Chemical Works | 1 | Large escape of sulphurous and nitrous gases from main shaft. | Extra condensing apparatus has been fitted. |
Chaff Cutting | 1 | Dust from chaff cutting allowed to escape into the atmosphere. | The works have been closed for the present. |
Sack drying | 2 | Vapours from sack drying allowed to escape into the atmosphere. | In each case the works have been closed. |
Burning refuse | 1 | Vapours and dust from dust destructor. | A set of cells has been fitted with a view to prevent any further escape. |