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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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Table: TABLE C.*See footnote, page 74.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.1 —INSPECTION.

TABLE C.*See footnote, page 74.Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.1 —INSPECTION.

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)123145......
Workshops † (Including Workshop Laundries.)777763172
Domestic Workshops‡124193......
Workplaces (Males)2513271...
Domestic Workplaces (Males)41732...
Places where food is sold or prepared ||926109285...
Homeworkers' Premises1,64921...
Total3,89625978152

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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 72.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A. page 72.
|| The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used to chop meat for sausages, etc., in 22 of the premises.

Table: 2.—DEFECTS FOUND *

2.—DEFECTS FOUND *

Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)
Nuisances under the Public Health Act: Want of cleanliness473473......
Want of ventilation44......
Overcrowding............
Want of drainage of floors
Other nuisances305305...2
Sanitary accommodation.insufficient............
unsuitable or defec- tive11......
not separate for sexes............
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.)
Total7837832

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