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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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Table C.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final. | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Bakehouses and Laundries) | 464 | 126 | 3 | 1 | |
| Workshops† (Including Workshop Laundries.) | 267 | 45 | 7 | 1 | - |
| Domestic Workshops† | 19 | 8 | - | - | - |
| Workplaces .. .. | 378 | 40 | 5 | - | - |
| Domestic Workplaces | 34 | 5 | - | - | - |
| Places where food is sold or prepared § | 1,999 | 346 | - | ||
| Homeworkers' Premises | 695 | - | - | - | - |
| Total | 3,856 | 570 | 15 | 2 | - |
| †Including Workshop Bakehouses. ‡Including Domestic Bakehouses and Laundries. § The inspections of factories where food is prepared are included. Power is used in 94 of the premises. | |||||
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(Corresponding figures for 1934 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 | 547 (569 | 547 (569) | - | - | |
| Want of ventilation | 2 | 2 | - | ||
| Overcrowding | |||||
| Want of drainage of floors | - (2) | - (2) | - | ||
| Other nuisances.. | 62 (92) | 62 (92) | - | - | |
| Sanitatary accommodation | insufficient unsuitable or defec | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | - | |
| tive | 28 (35) | 28 (32) | - | - | |
| not separate fo sexes | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | - | ||
| Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse(s. 101) | |||||
| Breach of special sanitary require ments for bakehouses (ss. 97 to 100 | - | ||||
| Other offences .. (Excluding offences relating to out work which are included in Table 1. of this Report.) | 1 (5) | - | 1 (5) | - | |
| Total | 642 | 641 | 1 (5) | - | |
| * These defects refer to premises as mentioned above under table of Inspection. | |||||