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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 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | ||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | Bakehouse Workshops | 76 | 105 |
| Bakehouse Domestic Workshops | 29 | ||
| Laundries Workshops | 23 | ||
| Laundries Domestic Workshops | 22 | ||
| Workshops | 380* | ||
| Domestic Workshops | 55 | ||
| Workplaces | 189 | ||
| Workplaces Domestic | 30 | ||
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 231† | ||
| Total number of workshops and workplaces on Register | 1035 ‡ | ||
* 10 where men and women are employed.
† Power is used in 39 of these premises.
‡ See Tables A and B, and pages 111 and 112.
| Class. | Number | |
|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | |
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:- | ||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133) | 36 | |
| 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 | 49 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 49 | |
| 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 114 bakehouses in the Borough of Poplar, 37 Poplar
(including one factory bakehouse), 48 Bromley (including one factory