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Poplar 1917

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

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Table: 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.

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 1917.Number of Inspections.Number of Intimations.Number of Notices.Number of Final Notices.Number of Prosecutions.
Male.Female.Total.
Bakehouses (Factories)151..15245• •......
Bakehouses( Workshops)43†..43†204133....
Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops)19†..19†9673....
Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories)‡‡‡123154....
Laundries (Workshops)1562341....
Laundries (Domestic Workshops)..559........
{See footnote page 108) Workshops1441422865733817....
Workshops (Domestic)991824........
Workplaces147..1472531213..
Workplaces (Domestic)23..23102107....
Places where food is sold or prepared2638..263§966¶75262..
Milk Premises27534..27557325......
Cowsheds10..1034........
Slaughterhouses11..11801......
Other offensive trade premises5§§..5§§35........
Ice Cream premises ..76..76513......
Registered houses-let-in-lodgings....1,2654510‡‡446‡‡388||||41..
Homeworkers' premises5093098022702......

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* 22, Tligh Street, Poplar, 156, Abbott Road, 94, Devons Road, 66, Teviot Street,
129, 193. 286, and 313, Roman Road, 287a, East India Doe!; Road, 51, Suffolk Street,
24, Guilford Road. 197 and 158, Chrisp Street, 66, St. Leonard's Road, la, Dewberry
Street; the two following—Spratt's Factory, Morris Road, and the Far Famed Cake
Company—are not included.
† 20 Bakehouses were disused at the date of the last inspection. See page 116.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
║Including 9 workshops vhere both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 23 of these premises where sausages are made.
* Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 10 cowsheds.
§§ 5 registered premises, by the London County Council.
†† See Inspector's Report, page 167.
‡‡49 intimations were for 62 verminous rooms.
|||| Including 224 for cleansing and 30 for overcrowding.