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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 1918
Annual report for the year 1918 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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WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES, LAUNDRIES AND
OUTWORKERS.
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 1918. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 16† | .. | 16† | 90 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 58† | .. | 58† | 392 | 21 | 6 | 2 | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 17† | .. | 17† | 93 | 4 | 4 | 1 | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | t | 33 | 12 | 3 | .. | .. | |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 6 | 7 | 23 | 1 | .. | .. | ||
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | .. | 2 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 148 | 132|| | 280|| | 320 | 28 | 17 | .. | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 7 | 15 | 22 | 25 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workplaces | 150 | .. | 150 | 124 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 20 | .. | 20 | 15 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 285§ | .. | 285§ | 901¶ | 40 | 26 | 3 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 247** | .. | 247** | 623 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Cowsheds | 10 | .. | 10 | 14 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 10 | .. | 10 | 62 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade premises | 5§§ | .. | 5§§ | 56 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises | 68 | .. | 68 | 18 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | .. | 1,442 | 4632†† | 449‡‡ | 399|||| | 51 | .. | |
| Homeworkers' premises | 38 | 857 | 895 | 1805 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
†12 Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See page 89.
‡No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
||Including 7 workshops vhere both men and women are employed.
§Power is used in 26 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 page 96.
‡‡41 intimations were for 75 verminous rooms.
||||Including 186 for cleansing and 14 for overcrowding.