Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
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Premises. | Number of | ||||
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Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 83 | Intimation. 3 | Statutory. | Final. | |
Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 817† | 121 | 22 | 1 | .. |
Domestic Workshops‡ | 199‡ | 17 | .. | .. | .. |
Workplaces (Males) | 305 | 9 | 3 | 1 | .. |
Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 54 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. |
Places where food is sold or prepared | 965 | 116 | 16 | 1 | .. |
Homeworkers' Premises | 1410 | 9 | 4 | .. | .. |
Total | 3833 | 279 | 46 | 4 |
Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State.
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 145.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 145.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are inoluded. Power in
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 34 of the premises.
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Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
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Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H M. Inspector. (4) | |||
Want of cleanliness | 506 | 506 | |||
Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | |||
Overcrowding | 2 | 2 | |||
Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | |||
Other nuisances | 175 | 175 | |||
Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | .. | .. | ||
unsuitable or defective | .. | .. | |||
not separate for sexes | .. | .. | |||
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 | 687 | 687 |
' • These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.