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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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Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
1.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 137 | 20 | 1 | ||
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 857† | 74 | 17 | ||
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 151‡ | 10 | |||
| Workplaces (Males) | 326 | 23 | 9 | ||
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 108 | 13 | 8 | ||
| Places where food is sold or prepared || | 1,082|| | 112 | 24 | 4 | |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 2,202 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |
| Total | 4,863 | 261 | 61 | 5 | |
* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State.
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A. page 122.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 122.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 31 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.*
| Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4) | |||
| Want of cleanliness | 526 | 526 | |||
| Want of ventilation | ... | ... | |||
| Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | |||
| Other nuisances | 270 | 270 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 3 | 3 | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 1 | 1 | |||
| not separate for sexes | ... | ... | |||
| 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.) | |||||
| Total | 802 | 802 | |||
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.