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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 1909
[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 1909. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouse, Factory | 21 | .. | 2* | 16 | 1 | .. | ||
| Bakehouse, Workshop | 64† | .. | 64† | 354 | 37 | .. | ||
| Bakehouse, Domestic Workshop | 33† | .. | 33† | 160 | 19 | 1 | .. | |
| Factory, Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories | ..‡ | ..‡ | ..‡ | 78‡ | 2: | .. | ||
| Laundries, Workshop | 1 | 17 | 18 | 39 | 6 | 3 | .. | ... |
| Laundries, Domestic Workshop | 1 | 17 | 18 | 26 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 161 | 187|| | 348|| | 788 | 72 | 26 | 4 | .. |
| Workshops, Domestic | 12 | 26 | 38 | 49 | 3 | 1 | .. | |
| Workplaces | 174 | .. | 174 | 424 | 21 | 8 | .. | |
| Workplaces, Domestic | 20 | .. | 20 | 59 | 7 | 3 | .. | |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 294 § | .. | 294§ | 1041¶ | 125 | 25 | 2 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 341 | .. | 3413 | 1442 | 10 | 5 | .. | |
| Cowsheds | 15 | .. | 15 | 63 | .. | |||
| Slaughterhouses | 16 | .. | 16 | 94 | 2 | .. | ||
| Other offensive trade premises | s§§ | .. | 8§§ | 46 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises | 142 | .. | 142 | 390 | 19 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | .. | .. | 1044 | 2953† † | 75;: | 348|| || | 20 | 3... |
| Homeworkers' premises | 79 | 1258 | 1337 | 2028 | 23 | 14 | 2 | .. |
* 156, Abbott Road, and 16, Bow Road; the two following—Spratt's Factory,
Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
† Thirteen Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, pages 133 to 135.
‡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 sa0usages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 15 cowsheds.
§§ Includes 7 registered premises, London County Council, and one fish offal depot.
‡‡ See Inspector's Report, pages 245 to 248.
‡‡ 75 intimations were for 104 verminous rooms.
|||| 256 for cleansing and 92 for overcrowding. *** See page 184.