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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 1916

Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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Table: TABLE A.Table giving number of, and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, Places where food is prepared, Milk premises, Cowsheds, Slaughter-houses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream premises, Registered Houses Let in Lodgings, and Homeworkers' premises.

TABLE A.

Table giving number of, and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, Places where food is prepared, Milk premises, Cowsheds, Slaughter-houses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream premises, Registered Houses Let in Lodgings, and Homeworkers' premises.

Premises.On Register during year 1916.Number of Inspections.Number of Intimations.Number of Notices.Number of Final Notices.Number of Prosecutions.
Male.Female.Total.
Bakehouses (Factories)61..6*354......
Bakehouses(Workshops)51†..51†313391....
Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops)18†..18†896......
Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories)‡‡‡102‡161....
Laundries (Workshops)110113141....
Laundries (Domestic Workshops)..3352......
(See footnote page 121)
Workshops129143||272||5133115....
Workshops (Domestic)91221572......
Workplaces169..169326239....
Workplaces (Domestic)48..48108138....
Places where food is sold or prepared273§..273§1082¶112244..
Milk Premises3032..303**8711......
Cowsheds10..1038........
Slaughterhouses12..129721....
Other offensive trade premises5§§..5§§32........
Ice Cream premises93..93140106....
Registered houses-let-in-lodgings....1,2145538††567‡‡342||||37..
Homeworkers' premises571,1171,1742202921..

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* 22, High Street, Poplar, 156, Abbott Road, 16, Bow Road, 16, Teviot Street,
129, Roman Road, and 313, Roman Road; the two following—Spratt's Factory, Morris
Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company—are not included.
† 30 Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See page 128.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 7 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 31 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 10 cowsheds.
§§ 5 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, page 179.
‡‡ 102 intimations were for 98 verminous rooms.
|||| Including 230 for cleansing and 48 for overcrowding.