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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factory and Workshop Acts.
| Premises. | On Register during year 1935. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 56 | 56 | 244 | |||||
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 10 | - | 10 | 68 | 29 | - | - | - |
| Bakehouses (Domestic Workshops) | 3 | - | 3 | 6 | 8 | - | - | - |
| Factories (Laundries and Miscellaneous Factories) | 125 | 121 | 246 | 14 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Laundries (Workshops) | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - |
| Laundries (Domestic Workshops) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Workshops | 201 | 64 | 265 | 16 | 1 | - | ||
| Workshops (Domestic).. | 22 | - | 22 | 13 | - | - | - | - |
| Workplaces | 379 | 12 | 391 | 378 | 40 | 5 | - | - |
| Workplaces (Domestic) | 47 | - | 47 | 34 | 5 | - | - | - |
| Places where food is sold or prepared | 885* | - | 885* | 1999 | 346 | - | - | - |
| Milk Premises | 111 | - | 111 | 347 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Cowsheds | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Slaughterhouses (a) | 8 | - | 8 | 51 | 12 | - | - | - |
| Other offensive trade premises | 4 | - | 4 | 40 | 5 | 2 | - | - |
| Ice Cream premises | 237 | - | 270 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Homeworkers' premises | 15 | 431 | 446 | 69.5 | ||||
In this Table and in Table C on next page "reminders" that periodical
cleansing teas due are included as "Intimations."
* Power is used in 94 of these premises.
‡ ,, ,, 41 ,, ,,
(a) Includes three registered Slaughterers of Poultry.
(Lists of Slaughterhouses and other offensive trade premises are given
on pages 35, 36.)