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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 1913

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

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Table: TABLE C.* See remarks in italics, page. 157. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. 1 —INSPECTION.

TABLE C.* See remarks in italics, page. 157. Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers. 1 —INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)925.........
Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.)878†10726......
Domestic Workshops‡202‡21.........
Workplaces (Males)334219......
Domestic Workplaces (Males)555......
Places where food is sold or prepared ||908||9814......
Homeworkers' Premises1,301162......
Total3,77027351......

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* Tables C, D, E and F arc filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 161.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 161.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 35 of the premises.

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND*

2.—DEFECTS FOUND*

Particulars. (1)Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions. (5)
Found. (2)Remedied. (3)Referred to H.M. Inspector. (4)
Nuisances under the Public Health Act: Want of cleanliness556556
Want of ventilation22
Overcrowding11
Want of drainage of floors
Other nuisances168168
Sanitary accommodation.insufficient unsuitable or defec22
tive......
not separate for sexes......
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—
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.)
Total729729

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* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.