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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table C.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories | 394 | 165 | 8 | _ | — |
| (Including Factory Laundries.) | — | ||||
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 479 | 126 | 9 | 4 | — |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 50 | 19 | 1 | — | — |
| Workplaces | 609 | 106 | 16 | 2 | — |
| Domestic Workplaces | 36 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or pre-pared§ | 1555 | 453 | 18 | 1 | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 1292 | 17 | 3 | — | — |
| Total | 4415 | 889 | 56 | 7 | — |
† Including Workshop Bakehouses. See Table A, page 41.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. See Table A, page 41.
§ The inspections of all factories where food is prepared areincluded. Power
is used in 51 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND*
(Corresponding figures for 1928 are shown in italics).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of oleanliness | 694 (606) | 694 (606) | .. | .. | |
| Want of ventilation | 1 (6) | 1 (5) | (1) | .. | |
| Overcrowding | 2 (10) | 2 (10) | .. | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | |
| Other nuisances | 187 (186) | 187 (185) | (1) | .. | |
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 8 (5) | 8 (5) | .. | .. |
| unsuitable or defective | 126 (146) | 126 (146) | .. | .. | |
| not separate for sexes | 5 (5) | .. | .. | ||
| 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 | 1027 (970) | 1027 (962) | |||
* These defects rofer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.