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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 1910
[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 1910. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of ; Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 21 | .. | 2* | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 67† | .. | 67† | 258 | 34 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 26† | .. | 26† | 125 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | +.. + | ..‡ | +.. ‡ | 68‡ | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | 1 | 17 | 18 | 21 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| (See footnote, page 167) Workshops | 168 | 188|| | 351|| | 670 | 57 | 26 | 1 | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 13 | 26 | 39 | 52 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workplaces | 182 | .. | 182 | 315 | 18 | 7 | 2 | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 23 | .. | 23 | 52 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 329§ | .. | 329§ | 853¶ | 103 | 13 | 1 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 318 | 3182 | 1376 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | |
| Cowsheds | 14 | .. | 14 | 58 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 16 | .. | 16 | 116 | 3 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade premises | 7§§ | .. | 7§§ | 34 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises | 151 | .. | 151 | 261 | 14 | 8 | 1 | .. |
| Registered houses-let-inlodgings | .. | .. | 1102 | 2796†† | 49‡‡ | 353||| | 15 | .. |
| Homeworkers' premises | 70 | 1226 | 1296 | 1773 | 18 | 5 | .. | .. |
* 156, Abbott Road, and 16, Bow Road; the two following—Spratt's Factory,
Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
†Fourteen Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, pages 177 to 180.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
| Including 5 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 40 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 14 cowsheds.
§§ 7 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, pages 281 to 284.
‡‡ 49 intimations were for 73 verminous rooms.
|||| 261 for cleansing and 92 for overcrowding.