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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 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE C *
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
1
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 168 | 15 | 4 | ... | |
| Workshops-†* (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 800 | 55 | 21 | ... | ... |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 139 | 7 | 3 | ... | |
| Workplaces (Males) | 253 | 12 | 7 | 3 | ... |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 102 | 10 | 7 | ... | ... |
| Places where food is sold or prepared || | 966 | 75 | 26 | 2 | ... |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 2,270 | 2 | ... | ... | ... |
| Total | 4,698 | 176 | 68 | 5 | ... |
* Tables C, D. E and E are filled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 110.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 110.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 23 of the premises.
2
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 373 | 373 | |||
| Want of ventilation | ... | ... | |||
| Overcrowding | ... | ... | |||
| Want of drainage of floors | ... | ... | |||
| Other nuisances | 220 | 220 | |||
| Sanitary accommodation. | insufficient | 9 | 9 | ||
| unsuitable or defective | 1 | 1 | |||
| not separate for sexes | ... | ... | |||
| 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.) | t | ||||
| Total | 603 | 603 | |||
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.