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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 C.LIST OF OUTWORKERS, FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901 (S. 107). ‡

TABLE C.LIST OF OUTWORKERS, FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901 (S. 107). ‡

Class of Homework.1905. Number of Lists Received.Number of Addresses of Outworkers.
Due Feb. 1st.Due Aug. 1st.Forwarded to other Authorities.Received from other Authorities.
No. of Lists.No. of Outworkers.No. of Lists.No. of Outworkers.
Due Feb 1.Due Aug. 1.Due Feb. 1.Due Aug. 1.
Total3978940815268284435456
Tailoring2648230473
Shirtmaking31743206
Miscellaneous71025112
Shoemakers3311224†

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*26 Males and 5 Females. † 23 Males and 1 Female.
‡ See pages 59 and 166
TABLE D.
(Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State.)
See remarks in italics, page 115.

Table: Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.I.—INSPECTION.

Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homework.

I.—INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories2922910..
(Including Factory Laundries.) Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.)83792382
Domestic Workshops841411
Workplaces445*78253
Places where food is sold or prepared669†93316
Homeworkers' Premises1,770215..
Total4,09732711012

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*Not Bakehouses. See Table A, page 116.
† Power is used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 32 of the above premises.