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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 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Premises. | On Register during year 1914. | i Number of Inspections. | ; Number of | Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. 1 | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 31 | ... | 3* | 10 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
| Bakehouses(Workshops) | 63† | ... | 63† | 240 | 59 | 1 | ... | ... |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 20† | ... | 20† | 107 | 17 | 1 | ... | ... |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | + + | ‡ | ‡ | 81‡ | 8 | 2 | ... | ... |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 10 | 11 | 22 | 4 | 2 | ... | ... |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | 1 | 7 | 8 | 14 | 1 | ... | ... | ... |
| 149 | 105 | 314 | 557 | 48 | 8 | ... | ... | |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 11 | 19 | 30 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Workplaces | 162 | 162 | 388 | 19 | 2 | ... | ||
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 25 | 25 | 74 | 5 | ||||
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 300§ | ... | 300§ | 991¶ | 101 | 5 | 1 | ... |
| Milk Premises | 368 | ... | 3682 | 1225 | 4 | ... | ... | ... |
| Cowsheds | 12 | ... | 12 | 44 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Slaughterhouses | 14 | ... | 14 | 69 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Other offensive trade premises | 6§§ | ... | 6§§ | 7 | 1 | ... | ... | ... |
| Ice Cream premises | 122 | ... | 122 | 262 | 7 | 1 | ... | ... |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | ... | ... | 1,158 | 3015†† | 331‡‡ | 385¦||| | 6 | ... |
| Homeworkers' premises | 79 | 1,318 | 1,397 | 2239 | 10 | ... | ... | ... |
* 22, High Street, Poplar, 156, Abbott Road, and 16, Bow Road; the two following—
Spratt's Factory, Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company, are not included.
† Eighteen Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See page 185.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
¦| Including 9 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 31 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 276.
‡‡ 71 intimations were for 102 verminous rooms.
|!|| Including 224 for cleansing and 55 for overcrowding.
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