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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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TABLE C*
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| 123 | 13 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 735 | 50 | 23 | 3 | ||
| 123 | 4 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 6 | 1 | ||||
| 15 | 1 | ... | |||
| 901 | 40 | 26 | 3 | ||
| 1,805 | ... | ||||
| 3,826 | 114 | 60 | 8 | ||
*Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 83.
‡Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 83.
||The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 26 of the premises.
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— | |||||
| 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 | |||||
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.