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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 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES, LAUNDRIES AND
OUTWORKERS.
| Premises. | On Register during year 1920. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Numl er of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 24 | .. | 24 | 70 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses( Workshops) | 49 | .. | 49 | 238 | 24 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 15 | .. | 15 | 70 | 12 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous | ||||||||
| Factories) | ‡ | ‡ | £8 | 6 | 4 | |||
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 2 | .. | .. | |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | .. | 3 | 3 | 13 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 159 | H8|| | 277|| | 514 | 50 | 28 | 7 | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 10 | 15 | 25 | 41 | 5 | 3 | ||
| Workplaces | 201 | .. | 201 | 251 | 32 | 7 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 31 | ;; | 31 | 41 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 311§ | .. | 311§ | 926* | 109 | 28 | 5 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 194** | .. | 194** | 209 | 2 | .. | .. | |
| Cowsheds | 10 | .. | 10 | 23 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 9 | .. | 9 | 78 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade promises | 5§§ | .. | 5§§ | 18 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises .. | 83 | 83 | 44 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | |
| Homeworkers' premises | 66 | 839 | 895 | 1619 | 2 | 1 | • • | .. |
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 9 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 22 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.