Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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respectively. Elder girl was said to occupy the forecabin
when under way, but was sleeping in the after-cabin
with the family when lying alongside, as the father did not
care to leave her in the fore-cabin alone while boat was
lying at quay. Letter to owner of boat."
|| Mr. Boyce reports that he visited four non-registered boats twice.
WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES, LAUNDRIES*
AND OUTWORKERS.
(Home Work Order, 23rd May, 1907.)
As to the number and description of workshops on the registers see
Tables A and B, pages 111 and 112.
There are two registers of workshops kept, one for females, and the
other for males.
A register of bakehouses is also kept.
The registered workshops were inspected two or three times in the
year, some every month.
The number of premises notified within the district as used by outworkers
is 1,356, but this number varies with each six monthly return, see
Table A, page 111, and Tables C and D, pages 114 and 115.
The places where the outworkers are employed were inspected all
of them twice during the year, some more frequently.
See Miss Tattersall's report, pages 215 and 216, and the Sanitary
Inspectors' reports, pages 173, 178, 197 and 207.
For outworkers connected with infectious cases, see page 62.
A special form is submitted by the Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health (see pages 114 to 117) in preparing the
• See page 163, Factory and Workshop Act, 1907.
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