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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 C.*
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
I.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 94 | 3 | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 1181† | 115 | 29 | 4 | .. |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 235‡ | 27 | 3 | ... | .. |
| Workplaces (Males) | 424 | 21 | 8 | .. | |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 59 | 7 | 3 | .. | |
| Places where food is sold or prepared j|.. | 1041|| | 125 | 25 | 2 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 2028 | 23 | 14 | 2 | .. |
| Total | 5062 | 321 | 82 | 8 | .. |
* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
‡ Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 127.
J Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 127.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power it
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 37 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND *
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (5) | ||
| Want of cleanliness | *493 | 493 | |||
| Want of ventilation | 12 | 12 | |||
| Overcrowding | 5 | 5 | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | |||||
| Other nuisances | 230 | 230 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 2 | 2 | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 6 | 6 | |||
| not separate for sexes | 4 | 4 | |||
| 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.) | |||||
| Total | 752 | 752 | |||
• These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.