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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 1904

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: 3.-OTHER MATTERS.

3.-OTHER MATTERS.

Class.Number.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories:— Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133)33
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory Act (S. 5)Notified by H.M. Inspector5
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors.10
Other..
Letters19
Notices under Public Health (London) Act, 1891 Section 27 Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):—10
In use during 190339See Annual Report, page 104.
Certificate grantedin 190333
in 19043
In use at the end of 190436
Homework:—Number of
Lists of Outworkers* (S. 107) :—Lists.Outworkers-
Lists received631352
Addresses of outworkersforwarded to other Authorities..124497
received from other Authorities..149563
Homework in unwholesome or infected premises:—Wearing Apparel.Other.
Notices prohibiting homework in unwholesome premises (S. 108)See Ann.Rpt., p.38.
Cases of infectious diseases notified in homeworkers' premises, including Measles28See Ann. Rpt., p.87.
Orders prohibiting homework in infected premises (S. 110)••••
Workshops on the Registers (S. 131) at the end of 1904. Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here.
Total number of workshops on Registers372**

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* The Lists are received twice in the year. The year's figures required in the Table are
obtained by adding together the two half-yearly totals.
** Not including "Workplaces and Domestic "Workshops. See pages 98-100. See alio
remarks, page 97.