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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 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Table C.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
I.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories | 412 | 140 | 1 | 1 | — |
| (Including Factory Bakehouses and Laundries) Workshops† | 408 | 78 | 3 | 1 | — |
| (Including Workshop Laundries.) Domestic Workshops‡ | 33 | 8 | 1 | — | — |
| Workplaces | 509 | 77 | 15 | — | — |
| Domestic Workplaces | 53 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared§ | 1967 | 342 | 2 | — | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 620 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Total | 4002 | 651 | 23 | 2 | — |
† Including Workshop Bakehouses.
‡ Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used in 87 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND* (Corresponding figures for 1931 are shown in italics).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | Prosecutions. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | ||
| Nuisances under the Public Health Act: Want of cleanliness | 580 | (590) | 580 | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | (14) | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | (1) | — | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | — | 12) | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 112 | (47) | 112 | — | — | |
| Sanitary recommodation | insufficient | 5 | (11) | 5 | — | — |
| unsuitable or defective | 23 | (25) | 23 | — | — | |
| not separate for sexes | 4 | (1) | 4 | — | — | |
| Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:— Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse(s.101) | ||||||
| Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100) Other offences | — | (4) | — | — | — | |
| (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report.) | ||||||
| Total | 724 | (695) | 724 | — | .. | |
* These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection.