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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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TABLE C.*
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 72 | 3 | ... | ... | ... |
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 908† | 112 | 23 | 2 | ... |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 166‡ | 14 | ... | ... | ... |
| Workplaces (Males) | 321 | 6 | 3 | ... | ... |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 37 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
| Places where food is sold or prepared || | 872|| | 122 | 15 | ... | ... |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1,294 | 16 | 9 | 1 | ... |
| Total | 3,760 | 275 | 50 | 3 | |
* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A. page 144.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 144.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 38 of the premises.
| Particulars. (1) | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. (5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. (2) | Remedied. (3) | Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4) | |||
| Want of cleanliness ......... | 504 | 504 | |||
| Want of ventilation | 3 | 3 | |||
| Overcrowding | ... | ... | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | |||
| Other nuisances | 172 | 172 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 1 | 1 | ||
| 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 | 680 | 680 | |||
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.