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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 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE A.
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 during year 1915. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 6* | .. | 6* | 22 | 5 | .. | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses) Workshops, | 51† | .. | 51† | 264 | 40 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 15† | .. | 15† | 123 | 17 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | 91‡ | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | ||
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 11 | 12 | 35 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | .. | 3 | 3 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| 135 | 160 | 295 | 424 | 53 | 22 | .. | .. | |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 11 | 16 | 27 | 55 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Workplaces | 159 | .. | 159 | 383 | 27 | 10 | .. | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 24 | .. | 24 | 80 | 9 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 260$ | .. | 260 | 1165 | 172 | 23 | 2 | |
| Milk Premises | 245 | .. | 245** | 1030 | 1 | .. | .. | |
| Cowsheds | 11 | .. | 11 | 36 | 1 | .. | .. | |
| Slaughterhouses | 11 | .. | 11 | 73 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade premises | 6 | .. | 6 | 40 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises .. | 93 | .. | 93 | 251 | 8 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Registered houses-let-in-lodgings | .. | 1,168 | 3897†† | 405‡‡ | 276 | 5 | .. | |
| Homeworkers' premises | 111 | 1,458 | 1,569 | 2306 | 7 | 3 | .. | .. |
* 22, High Street, Poplar, 156, Abbott Road, 16, Bow Road, 16, Teviot Street,
129, Roman Road, and 313, Roman Road ; the two following—Spratt's Factory, Morris
Road, and the Far Famed Cake Company—are not included.
† 34 Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See page 131.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Can! Index.
|| Including 10 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 27 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 11 cowsheds.
§§ 6 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, pag6 192.
‡‡ 79 intimations were for 121 rerminous rooms.
||||Including 208 for cleansing and 24 for overcrowding.
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