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Poplar 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: 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.

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 1913.Number of Inspections.Number of Intimations.Number of Notices.Number of Final Notices.Number of Prosecutions.
Male.Female.Total.
Bakehouses (Factories)21...2*101.........
Bakehouses) Workshops)57†...57†286521......
Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops)26†...26†11919.........
Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories)‡‡‡82‡4.........
Laundries (Workshops)...12121832......
Laundries (Domestic Workshops)1910161.........
(See footnote page 157) Workshops149172||321||5745223......
Workshops (Domestic)112839671.........
Workplaces161...161334219......
Workplaces (Domestic)28...28555.........
Places where food is sold or prepared283§...283§908¶9814......
Milk Premises396...396212811.........
Cowsheds12...1278............
Slaughterhouses14...148921......
Other offensive trade premises6§§...6§§21............
Ice Cream premises120...120268125......
Registered houses-let-in-lodgings......1,1482863††244‡‡360||||......
Homeworkers' premises1101,1441,2541301162......

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* 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-four Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See
page 167.
‡ 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 35 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 12 cowsheds.
§§ 6 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, page 254.
‡‡ 53 intimations were for 69 verminous rooms.
|||| Including 186 for cleansing and 94 for overcrowding.