London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factories on Register (where Females are Employed).—contd.
1 Condiment packing.
4 Confectionery making.
1 Cork cutting.
1 Corset making.
2 Costume making.
1 Dog biscuit manufacturer.
1 Dressmaking.
1 Fibre, hemp and jute making.
1 Flute making.
1 Glass works.
1 Kapok works.
1 Laundry.
1 Match making.
1 Mineral water manufacturer.
2 Overall making.
1 Packing for machinery.
1 Perambulator builder.
1 Ticket printing.
2 Timber works and wicker
furniture making.
1 Tortoiseshell goods making.
1 Toy balloon making.
1 Toy making.
1 Trimming making.
1 Type founder.
4 Varnish and paint works.
1 Wallpaper manufacturer.
2 Waterproof making.
1 Whalebone works.
1 Wine bottling
2 Woollen garment making.
1 Wood chopping.
TABLE C.
See note, page 56.
Factories, W orkshops , L aundries , Workplaces and H omeworkers.
1
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories | 340 | 145 | 29 | 1 | •• |
| (Including Factory Laundries.) Workshops† | 628 | 177 | 47 | 1 | .. |
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) Domestic Workshops‡ | 25 | 7 | 1 | .. | .. |
| Workplaces (Males) | 391 | 50 | 7 | 3 | .. |
| Domestic Workplaces (Males) | 131 | 15 | 3 | 1 | .. |
| Places where food is sold or pre-pared§ | 1196 | 420 | 23 | 1 | .. |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1187 | 57 | 22 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 3898 | 871 | 132 | 9 | 2 |
†Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 54.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 54.
§ The inspections of all factories where food is prepared are included. Power
is used in 33 of the premises.