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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 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES, LAUNDRIES AND OUTWORKERS. 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, and Homeworkers' premises.
| Premises. | On Register during year 1921. | Numter of Inspectione. | Numler of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Numter of Final Notices. | Numter of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 29 | .. | 29 | 100 | 25 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses) W orkshops) | 42 | .. | 42 | 142 | 13 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 13 | .. | 13 | 53 | 11 | 2 | .. | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 26 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | .. | 3 | 3 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 141 | 130|| | 271|| | 298 | 38 | 13 | 2 | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 6 | 5 | 11 | 20 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workplaces | 159 | .. | 159 | 273 | 19 | 5 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 20 | .. | 20 | 30 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 273§ | .. | 273§ | 705¶ | 84 | 13 | 5 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 195** | .. | 195** | 196 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Cowsheds | 10 | .. | 10 | 27 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 9 | .. | 9 | 44 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade promises | 5§§ | .. | 5§§ | 23 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Ice Cream premises | 97† | .. | 97 | 22 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Homeworkers' premises | 43 | 740 | 783 | 1108 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
† See remarks on page 80.
‡ No Register is kept of Factories. Figures are from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 10 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 16 of these premises where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
** Including 10 cowsheds. Register under revision.
§§ 5 registered premises, by the London County Council.