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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: TABLE C.* See remarks in italics, page 118. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. I.—INSPECTION.

TABLE C.* See remarks in italics, page 118. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. I.—INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions,
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)14272....
Workshops! (Including Workshop Laundries.)1098†11029..
Domestic Workshops!187‡272. .. .
Workplaces (Males)36827121
Domestic Workplaces (Males)8596
Places where food is sold or prepared ||..1195||141231. .
Homeworkers' Premises2638123....
Total5713333772

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* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
f Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 119.
J Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 119.
|j The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power ig
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., inl37 of the premises.

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

2.—DEFECTS FOUND.

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Vuisances under the Public Health Acts:
Want of cleanliness528528
Want of ventilation33
Overcrowding22
Want of drainage of floors....
Other nuisances377377
Sanitary accommodation.(insufficient33
unsuitable or defec-{ tive22
not separate for sexes11
Offtnces under the Factory and Workshop Act . —....
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)....
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100).....
Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table d of this Report.)....
Total916916