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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. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories | 135 | 10 | 3 | ... | ... |
| (Including Factory Laundries.) Workshops† | 773 | 85 | 33 | 3 | ... |
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) Domestic Workshops‡ | 121 | 23 | ... | ... | ... |
| Workplaces (Males) | 175 | 7 | 4 | ... | ... |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ... |
| Places where food is sold or prepared ║ | 773 | 76 | 11 | 1 | ... |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1,607 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Total | 3,537 | 202 | 52 | 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 75.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 75.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 27 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.*
| Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Ketenvd to H.M. Inspet tor. (4) | |||
| 408 | 408 | ||||
| Want of ventilation | 8 | 8 | |||
| Overcrowding | 4 | 4 | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | |||
| Other nuisances | 139 | 139 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | ... | ... | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 2 | 2 | |||
| 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 | 561 | 561 | |||
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.