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Poplar 1907

[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 1907.Number of Inspections.Number of Intimations.Number of Notices.Number of Final Notices.Number of Prosecutions.
Male.Female.Total.
Bakehouse, Factory21..2*7........
Bakehouse, Workshop76††76†32413......
Bakehouse, Domestic Workshop29†..29†14312......
Factory, Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories (Females)‡‡‡131147....
Laundries, Workshop320234193....
Laundries, Domestic Workshop..22224485....
Workshops170210||380||87084443..
Workshops, Domestic19365520593....
Workplaces189..18943942213..
Workplaces, Domestic30..30731041..
Places where food is sold or prepared231§..231§978¶145241..
Milk Premises349..34921664941..
Cowsheds15..15683......
Slaughterhouses18..18553......
Other offensive trade premises9..957........
Ice Cream premises130..1302733113••..
Registered houses-let-in-lodgings1020..10202736††..46521..
Homeworkers' premises99125713562124257....

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* 94, High Street, Poplar, and 16, Bow Road; the two following—Spratt's Factory,
Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
† Seven Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, pages 118 and 119.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
║ Including 10 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 39 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 15 cowsheds.
†† See Inspector's Report, pages 217 to 220.