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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 1905

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

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Table: 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 at end of year, l905.Number of Inspections.Number of Intimations.Number of Notices.Number of Final Notices.Number of Procecutions.
Male.Female.Total.
Bakehouse, Factory1**..110• •......
Bakehouse, Workshop84‡‡••84284108191..
Bakehouse, Domestic Workshop30‡‡..30117..••••..
Laundries, Factory••44••........
Laundries, Workshop2242673124....
Laundries, Domestic Workshop..18183854....
Workshops127181‡‡30879285312..
Workshops, Domestic1145561041231..
Workplaces174..17444578253..
Places where food is sold or prepared....223¶66993316..
Milk Premises..••383§16201062..
Cowsheds..••1680••......
Slaughterhouses..••20962......
Other offensive trade premise....9452......
Ice Cream premises..••77188188....
Registered houses-let-in-lodgings....8772558*..564*19*4*
Homeworkers' premises807908701770215....

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**94, High Street, Poplar; the two following-Spratt's Factory, Morris Road, and The
Far-Famed Cake Co., are not included. ‡‡ Three Bakehouses were disused at the date
of last inspection. See Annual Report, page 122. ‡ Including twenty-two Workshops where
both Men an.d Women are employed. *See Inspector's Report, pages 237-241. ¶ Power
is used in 32 of these premises. § At the end of the year, 364 premises were used, see page
125.