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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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TABLE C.*
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
1
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Laundries.) | 431 | 74 | 8 | 1 | |
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 712 | 96 | 22 | 2 | 2 |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 41 | 7 | 3 | ||
| Workplaces (Males) | 369 | 64 | 11 | 2 | |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 109 | 13 | 2 | ||
| Places where food is sold or prepared§ | 1001 | 133 | 15 | 1 | |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1106 | 67 | 8 | 1 | |
| Total | 3769 | 454 | 69 | 6 | 3 |
* Tables (J, D, E and F are tilled in at the request of the Secretary of State,
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 57 .
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 57.
§ The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power
is used in 31 of the nremises.
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| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1). | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 375 | 375 | .. | 1 | |
| Want of ventilation | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | |
| Want of drainage of floors | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Other nuisances | 293 | 293 | .. | .. | |
| Sanitaryaccommodation | insufficient | 7 | 7 | .. | .. |
| unsuitable or defective | 56 | 56 | .. | 1 | |
| not separate for sexes | 6 | 6 | .. | 1 | |
| 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.) | |||||
| Total | 744 | 744 | .. | 3 | |
These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.