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Poplar 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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(c) Seamen's Lodging Houses.
The Public Health Committee licensed the following Seamen's
Lodging Houses to 30th June, 1936:—
No. of
Premises. Licensee. Men.
411, East India Dock Road, Rev. Samuel King (The
Poplar National Sailors'Society) 22
The Queen Victoria Seamen's Rev. Thomas Athey Emble-
Rest, Jeremiah Street, ton (The Seamen's Mission) 115
Poplar
235, West Ferry Road, Poplar Herbert Edward Barker
(The British Sailors' Society) 12
41 inspections of Seamen's Lodging Houses, including 5 night inspections,
were made in 1935.
During the year five persons were officially warned that under an
Order in Council, dated 13th June, 1917, none but duly licensed persons
may let lodgings to seamen.