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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 1924
[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 1924. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 32 | — | 32 | 130 | 33 | 1 | 1 | |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 53 | — | 53 | 177 | 43 | 1 | — | — |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 1 | — | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | 32 | 118 | 150 | 301 | 41 | 7 | — | — |
| Laundries (Workshops) | — | 4 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | — | 3 | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| Workshops | 121 | 1515 | 3728 | 523 | 51 | 20 | 2 | 2 |
| Workshops (Domestic) | 14 | — | 14 | 28 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| Workplaces | 167 | — | 167 | 369 | 64 | 11 | 2 | — |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 41 | — | 41 | 109 | 13 | 2 | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 316r | — | 316r | 1001¶ | 133 | 15 | 1 | — |
| Milk Premises | 167 | — | 167 | 385 | 4 | 2 | — | — |
| Cowsheds | 10 | — | 10 | 37 | — | — | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 9 | — | 9 | 62 | — | — | — | — |
| Other offensive trade premises | 2rr | — | 2rr | 4 | — | — | — | — |
| Ice Cream premises | 94 | — | 94 | 165 | 17 | 5 | 1 | — |
| Homeworkers' premises | 56 | 918 | 974 | 1106 | 67 | 8 | — | 1 |
8 Including 26 workshops where both men and women are employed and 2
laundry receiving offices.
r Power is used in 31 of these premises.
¶ Including inspections of all factories where food is prepared,
rr 2 registered by the London County Council.