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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 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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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 1906. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouse, Factory | 3* | .. | 3* | 15 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouse, Workshop | 66† | .. | 66† | 273 | 32 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouse, Domestic Workshop | 30f | .. | 30† | 145 | 20 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factory, Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories | + * * + | ‡ | ‡ | 1271 | 6‡ | 2‡ | .. | .. |
| Laundries, Workshop | 1 | 20 | 21 | 34 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Laundries, Domestic Workshop | .. | 15 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 162 | 20l|| | 363|| | 791 | 76 | 28 | .. | .. |
| Workshops, Domestic | 9 | 20 | 29 | 37 | 5 | .. | .. | |
| Workplaces | 172 | .. | 172 | 368 | 27 | 12 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces, Domestic | 25 | .. | 25 | 85 | 9 | 6 | .. | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 293 § | .. | 293§ | 1195¶ | 141 | 23 | 1 | .. |
| M Ik Premises | 359 | .. | 359** | 1629 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. |
| Ccw.heds | 15 | .. | 15 | 53 | .. | .. | ||
| Slaughterhouses | 16 | .. | 16 | 108 | 4 | .. | .. | |
| Other offensive trade premises | 9§§ | .. | 9§§ | 54 | 2 | .. | .. | |
| Ice Cream premises | 140 | .. | 140 | 263 | 15 | 5 | .. | .. |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | 1010 | .. | 1010 | 2351†† | 48†† | 327 | 9 | 7 |
| Homeworkers' premises | 86 | 1657 | 1743 | 2638 | 12 | 3 | .. | .. |
# 94, High Street, Poplar, 156, Abbott Road,and 16, Bow Road; the two following—
Spratt's Factory, Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
f Fifteen Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, pages 125 to 127.
J No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 7 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 37 of these premises where sausages are made.
"I Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
* * Including 15 cowsheds.
§§ Includes 8 registered premises, London County Council, and one fish offal depot,
ft See Inspector's Report, pages 246 to 249.
)} 48 intimations were for 72 verminous rooms.