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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 1906

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

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Table: TABLE C.**See remarks in italics, pages 110 and 111. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. I.—INSPECTION.

TABLE C.**See remarks in italics, pages 110 and 111. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. I.—INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)543....
Workshops (Including Workshop Laundries.)1172*153371
Domestic Workshops317‡428..
Workplaces (Males)36232103
Domestic Workplaces (Males)151....
Places where food is sold or prepared999§1289..
Homeworkers' Premises215621....
Total5075380644

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** Tables C, I), E and P are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State.
* Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 112.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses. See Table A, page 112.
§ The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 35 of the premises.

Table: 2.— DEFECTS FOUND.

2.— DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts: Want of cleanliness4184182
Want of ventilation....
Overcrowding33
Want of drainage of floors11
Other nuisances260260
Sanitary accommodation.insufficient11
unsuitable or defective99
not separate for sexes33
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— 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 Part 3 of this Report.)
Total695695