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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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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 1911. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Proaecntions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 21 | .. | 2* | 11 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 71† | .. | 71† | 290 | 57 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 18† | .. | 18+ | 112 | 16 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | + .. + | + .. + | ...‡ | 83‡ | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 19 | 20 | 28 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) {See footnote, page 141) | 1 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 182 | 183 | 315 | 499 | 58 | 18 | 1 | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 11 | 21 | 32 | 71 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workplaces | 157 | " | 157 | 305 | 9 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 19 | .. | 19 | 54 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 278§ | .. | 278§ | 965* | 116 | 16 | 1 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 325 | .. | 325** | 1110 | 3 | .. | .. | .. |
| Cowsheds | 14 | .. | 14 | 48 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 14 | .. | 14 | 92 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade premises | 8§§ | .. | 8§§ | 39 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises | 116 | .. | 116 | 223 | 15 | .. | .. | .. |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | .. | .. | 1124 | 2674†† | 152‡‡ | 342|| | 6 | .. |
| Homeworkers' premises | 68 | 1002 | 1070 | 1410 | 9 | 4 | .. | .. |
* 156, Abbott Road, and 16, Bow Road; the two following—Spratt's Factory,
Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
† Twenty Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, pages 151 to 153.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 6 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 34 of these premises where sausages are made.
II 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 261 to 264.
‡‡68 intimations were for 104 verminous rooms.
Illl 228 for cleansing and 90 for overcrowding. L