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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: TABLE C *See remarks in italics, page. 130.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.1.— INSPECTION.

TABLE C *

See remarks in italics, page. 130.

Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.

1.— INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)113131......
Workshopsf (Including Workshop Laundries.)723‡9835......
Domestic Workshops‡185‡19.........
Workplaces (Males)3832710......
Domestic Workplaces (Males)8093.....
Places where food is sold or prepared a1,165172232...
Homeworkers' Premises2,30673......
Total4,955345752...

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* Tables C, D, E and F are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 131.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 131.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 27 of the premises.

Table: 2 .—DEFECTS FOUND *

2 .—DEFECTS FOUND *

Want of cleanliness584584
Want of ventilation33
Overcrowding33
Want of drainage of floors....
Other nuisances402402
Sanitary accommodation."insufficient .......
unsuitable or defective....
not separate for sexes11
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.)
Total993993

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