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

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

Premises.Number of
Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
Intimation.Statutory.Final.
Factories (Including Factory Laundries.)126284......
Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.)45353152...
Domestic Workshops ‡80112......
Workplaces (Males)2731951...
Domestic Workplaces (Males)30531...
Places where food is sold or prepared ||70584135...
Homeworkers Premises1,108............
Total2,775200429...

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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 16 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 cleanliness427427......
Want of ventilation44.........
Overcrowding............
Want of drainage of floors............
Other nuisances254254......
Sanitary accommodation.insufficient11...1
unsuitable or defective33......
not separate for sexes............
Offences under the Factory and Workshop
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.)
Total6896891

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* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.
A6423 F