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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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Table: TABLE F.Other Matters.

TABLE F.Other Matters.

Class.Number.
(1)(2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:-
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)16
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Fac- tory and Workshop Act (s. 5)Notified by H.M. Inspector22
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector22
Other11
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year...
In use at the end of the year25

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BAKEHOUSES
Hours of Labour, Bakehouses.
Inspections.
The Bakehouses throughout the Borough were inspected at least
twice during the year.
There are 106 Bakehouses in the Borough of Poplar, 36 Poplar
(including 2 factory bakehouses), 44 Bromley (including 2 factory
bakehouses), 26 Bow, but at the date of the last half-yearly inspection
in September, 9 were disused in Poplar, 5 in Bromley, and 4 in Bow,
so that there were in use 88 bakehouses, 27 Poplar, 3!) Bromley, and
22 Bow. See Table A, page 178, number made up to end of year.
There are 34 underground bakehouses in the Borough, 8 Poplar,
14 Bromley, and 12 Bow. At the Autumnal half-yearly inspection 10
were not in use—4 Poplar, 3 Bromley and 3 Bow.
Cleansing was necessary in the various bakehouses on 143 occasions.
Twenty-two other nuisances were found.
Bakehouses marked with * are underground.
Bakehouses marked with † Empty or not used as a bakehouse at date of last
inspection.