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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Premises. | On Register at end of year 1912. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 21 | .... | 2* | 9 | 1 | .... | .... | .... |
| Bakehouses(Workshops) | 58† | ... | 58† | 307 | 45 | ... | ... | ... |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 26† | ... | 26† | 115 | 11 | ... | ... | ... |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | ‡ | t‡ | 72‡ | 3 | ... | ... | ... |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 15 | 16 | 23 | 4 | 1 | ... | ... |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | 1 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 1 | ... | ... | ... |
| Workshops | 145 | 186|| | 331|| | 668 | 63 | 22 | 2 | ... |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 9 | 19 | 28 | 38 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
| Workplaces | 159 | ... | 159 | 321 | 6 | 3 | ... | ... |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 23 | ... | 23 | 37 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 307§ | ... | 307§ | 872¶ | 122 | 15 | ... | ... |
| Milk Premises | 327 | 3272 | 1419 | ... | ... | ... | ... | |
| Cowsheds | 13 | ... | 13 | 41 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Slaughterhouses | 14 | ... | 14 | 93 | 1 | ... | ... | ... |
| Other offensive trade premises | 8§§ | ... | 8§§ | 50 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Ice Cream premises | 124 | ... | 124 | 233 | 14 | 3 | ... | ... |
| Registered houses-let in-lodgings | ... | ... | 1,137 | 2511†† | 249‡‡ | 271|||| | 1 | ... |
| Homeworkers' premises | 82 | 1,215 | 1,297 | 1294 | 16 | 9 | 1 | ... |
* 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-five Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See Annual
Report, page 151.
‡No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
]| Including 8 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 38 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 13 cowsheds.
§§7 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, pages 243 to 246.
‡‡63 intimations were for 103 verminous rooms.
|||| 191 for cleansing and 60 for overcrowding.