London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1919
Annual report for the year 1919 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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| Premises. | On Register during year 1919. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Noticcs. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 12 | 12 | 75 | 6 | 1 | •• | •• | |
| Bakehouses(W'orkshops) | 61 | 61 | 232 | 25 | 1 | 1 | •• | |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 19 | 19 | 82 | 18 | •• | •• | •• | |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 60 | 4 | 2 | •• | •• |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 6 | 7 | 28 | 1 | •• | •• | •• |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | •• | 4 | 4 | 9 | 5 | •• | •• | •• |
| Workshops | 152 | 124|| | 276|| | 513 | 59 | 32 | 2 | •• |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 7 | 14 | 21 | 30 | •• | •• | •• | •• |
| Workplaces | 181 | •• | 181 | 175 | 7 | 4 | •• | •• |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 17 | •• | 17 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | •• |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 314§ | •• | 314§ | 773¶ | 76 | 11 | 1 | •• |
| Milk Premises | 188** | •• | 188** | 556 | 3 | 2 | •• | •• |
| Cowsheds | 10 | •• | 10 | 32 | •• | •• | •• | •• |
| Slaughterhouses | 10 | •• | 10 | 51 | •• | •• | •• | •• |
| Other offensive trade premises | 5§§ | •• | 5§§ | 56 | •• | •• | •• | •• |
| Ice Cream premises | 71 | •• | 71 | 73 | 5 | 1 | l | •• |
| Registered houses let in dodgings | •• | •• | 1,448 | 3911†† | 392‡‡ | 214|||| | 26 | •• |
| Homeworkers' premises | 45 | 783 | 828 | 1607 | •• | •• | •• | •• |
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 9 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 27 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 pigs 88.
‡‡ 20 intimations were in respect of verminous rooms.
|||| Including 92 for cleansing and 2 for overcrowding.
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