Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACTS.
Table A.
Table giving number and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, places where food is prepared, Milk premises, Cowsheds, Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream premises, and Homeworkers' premises.
Premises. | On Register during year 1929. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
Bakehouses (Factories) | 46 | — | 46 | 170 | 96 | 8 | — | — |
Bakehouses (Workshops) | 25 | — | 25 | 98 | 54 | — | — | — |
Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 6 | — | 6 | 27 | 14 | 1 | — | — |
Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | 17 | 133 | 150 | 224 | 69 | — | — | — |
Laundries (Workshops) | — | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — |
Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Workshops | 168 | 164 | 332 | 377 | 71 | 9 | 4 | — |
Workshops (Domestic) | 17 | 2 | 19 | 23 | 5 | — | — | — |
Workplaces | 351 | — | 351 | 609 | 106 | 16 | 2 | — |
Workplaces (Domestic) | 28 | — | 28 | 36 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
Places where food is sold or prepared | 716* | — | 716* | 1555 | 453 | 18 | 1 | — |
Milk Premises | 116 | — | 116 | 273 | 9 | — | — | — |
Cowsheds | 4 | — | 4 | 29 | _ | — | — | — |
Slaughterhouses (a) | 8 | — | 8 | 38 | 13 | — | — | — |
Other offensive trade premises | 6† | — | 6† | 7 | — | — | — | |
Ice Cream premises | 89‡ | — | 89‡ | 453 | 12 | 2 | — | — |
Homeworkers' premises | 22 | 1019 | 1041 | 1292 | 17 | 3 | — | — |
* Power is used in 51 of these premises.
(a) Includes one registered Slaughterer of Poultry (12, Coborn Road).
† Registered by the London County Council. 7 offensive trades carried on;
Fur Skin Dressers, 3.
Soap Boiler, 1.
Fat Boilers, 2.
Tallow Melter, 1.
1 premises used for two offensive trades. Fat Boiler and Tallow Melter.