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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 1922
[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 1922. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 27 | .. | 27 | 106 | 28 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Bakehouses( Workshops) | 57 | .. | 57 | 171 | 47 | 5 | 1 | .. |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 2 | .. | 2 | 6 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | ‡ | ‡ | ‡ | 34 | 8 | .. | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Workshops) | 1 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | .. | 2 | 2 | 7 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Workshops | 97 | 123|| | 220|| | 376 | 57 | 17 | 2 | .. |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 6 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 4 | .. | .. | .. |
| W orkplaces | 100 | .. | 100 | 265 | 36 | 9 | 1 | .. |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 18 | .. | 18 | 54 | 8 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 276§ | .. | 276§ | 814¶ | 131 | 14 | 1 | .. |
| Milk Premises | 120 | .. | 120 | 420 | 11 | . . | .. | .. |
| Cowsheds | 10 | .. | 10 | 51 | . . | .. | .. | .. |
| Slaughterhouses | 9 | .. | 9 | 48 | 1 | .. | .. | .. |
| Other offensive trade promises | 5§§ | .. | 5§§ | 36 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| lee Cream premises .. | 107 | .. | 107 | 252 | 29 | 6 | .. | .. |
| Homeworkers' premises | 55 | 603 | 658 | 1741 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
‡No Register is kept of Factories. Figures aro from Journals and Card Index.
|| Including 24 workshops where both men and women are employed.
§ Power is used in 16 of these premisos where sausages are made.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared.
§§ 5 registered by the London County Council.