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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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Other Matters.
| Class. | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | 53 | |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 7 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 7 | |
| Other | 4 | |
| Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):- | ||
| Certificates granted during the year | .. | |
| In use at the end of the year | 33 | |
BAKEHOUSES.
The Bakehouses throughout the Borough were inspected at least
twice during the year.
There are 115 bakehouses in the Borough of Poplar, 38 Poplar
(including one factory bakehouse), 48 Bromley, 29 Bow, but at the date of
the last inspection two were disused in Poplar, five in Bromley and one
in Bow, so that there were in use 107 bakehouses, 36 Poplar, 43 Bromley
and 28 Bow. See Table A, page 112.
There are 37 underground bakehouses in the Borough, 9 Poplar, 16
Bromley and 12 Bow. At the end of the year four were not in use in
Bromley.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES & COW-HOUSES.
Notices were received from occupiers of slaughter-houses and cowhouses
of their intention to apply for the renewal of their licences at a
Special Meeting of the Public Health Committee of the London County
Council, held at the Clerkenwell Sessions House, Clerkenwell, on
Thursday, the 18th October, at 10 a.m.