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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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* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 171.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 171.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power it
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 40 of the premises.
• These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.
TABLE C.*
See remarks in italics, page 167.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
I.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 58 | Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | .. |
| .. | .. | .. | |||
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 948† | 93 | 27 | 1 | .. |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 198 ‡ | 18 | 2 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces (Males) | 315 | 18 | 7 | 2 | .. |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 52 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared || | 853|| | 103 | 13 | 1 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1773 | 13 | 5 | .. | .. |
| Total | 4197 | 251 | 56 | 5 | |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND. *
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H M. Inspector. | ||
| (i) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) |
| Want of cleanliness | 496 | 496 | ||
| Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | ||
| Overcrowding Want of drainage of floors | 4 | 4 | ||
| Other nuisances | 207 | 207 | ||
| insufficient | .. | .. | ||
| 0 unsuitable or defec-Sanitary . accommodation. | 3 | 3 | ||
| not separate for sexes | 1 | 1 | ||
| 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 | 713 | 713 | ||
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