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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 1933
[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 (Including Factory Bakehouses and Laundries) | 608 | 149 | 7 | 2 | - |
| Workshops † (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 437 | 67 | 6 | — | — |
| Domestic Workshops‡ | 37 | 8 | 1 | I | — |
| Workplaces | 929 | 88 | 12 | 3 | — |
| Domestic Workplaces | 114 | 9 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared§ | 1511 | 366 | - | - | — |
| Homeworkers' Premises | 496 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Total | 4132 | 688 | 29 | 7 | - |
†Including Workshop Bakehouses.
‡Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is
used in 88 of the premises.
2.—DEFECTS FOUND.* (Corresponding figures for 1932 are shown in brackets).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Prosecutions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H .M. Inspector. | |||
| __(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 639 (580) | 638 | — | ||
| Want of ventilation | 1 (—) | 1 | — | ||
| Overcrowding | 1 (—) | 1 | — | ||
| Want of drainage of floors | 31(—) | 3 | — | ||
| Other nuisances | 100 (112) | 106 | — | ||
| Sanitary accommodation | insufficient | 2 (5) | 2 | — | |
| unsuitable or defective | 32 (23) | 32 | |||
| not separate for sexes | 9 (4) | 8 | |||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101) Breach of special sanitary requirement for bakehouse (ss. 97 to 100) Other offences (Excluding offences relating to outwork which are included in Table D of this Report.) | 16 | — | 16 | — | |
| Total | 809 (724 | 791 | 16 | - | |
| *These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection. | |||||