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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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Number of Samples procured:
| (a) Under Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act | 391 |
| 31 | |
| (i) Number satisfactory | 25 |
| (ii) Number not satisfactory | 6 |
| Action taken in respect of unsatisfactory samples: | |
| - | |
| (b) Letters sent to Vendors | 2 |
| (c) Reported to appropriate Government Department, etc. | 4 |
| Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations— | |
| Certificates issued | 116 |
| Visits to Factories | 116 |
| Assistant's Time—Hours | 391 |
| * 5 Without Intimations. | |
| † 7 Without Intimations. | |
Mr . H. A. Pearce .
| Totals. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Intimations. | Notices. Statutory. | |
| No. or Inspections of: | |||
| Bakehouses— | |||
| Factories | 112 | - | - |
| Workshops | 55 | 1 | - |
| Dom. Workshops | 4 | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 24 | — | - |
| Cowhouses | 17 | - | - |
| Milkshops | 224 | 1 | - |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 125 | 6 | 2 |
| Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers— | |||
| Where power is used | 43 | 1 | - |
| Others | 200 | 3 | - |
| Stalls | 2,213 | - | - |
| Other places where Food is sold, etc.— | |||
| Where power is used | 67 | 1 | - |
| Others | 549 | 6 | - |
| Ice Cream Premises— | |||
| Where power is used | 23 | - | - |
| Others | 124 | 4 | - |
| Markets— | |||
| Morning | 187 | - | - |
| Evening | 78 | - | - |
| Miscellaneous | 59 | — | — |