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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: TABLE FOther 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)13
Action taken in matters referred" by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5)Notified by H.M. Inspector -9
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector9
Other (Communications)13
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year
In use at the end of the year23

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BAKEHOUSES.
Inspections.
The Bakehouses throughout the Borough were inspected at least
twice during the year.
There are 100 Bakehouses in the Borough of Poplar, 31 Poplar
(including 5 factory bakehouse), 43 Bromley (including 11 factory
bakehouses), 26 Bow (including 4 factory bakehouses), but at the date
of the last half-yearly inspection in September, 6 were disused in Poplar,
11 in Bromley, and 3 in Bow, so that there were in use 80 bakehouses,
25 Poplar, 32 Bromley, and 23 Bow. See Table A, page 110, number
made up to end of year.
There are 32 underground bakehouses in the Borough, 6 Poplai,
14 Bromley, and 12 Bow. At the Autumnal half-yearly inspection 9
were not in use—3 Poplar, 4 Bromley and 2 Bow.
Cleansing was necessary in the various bakehouses on 8 occasions.
Twenty-nine other nuisances were found.