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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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(2) MR . H. A. PEARCE .
| Totals. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Intimations, etc., served. | Notices served. | ||
| Stat. | Final. | |||
| Bakehouses— | ||||
| Factories | 150 | 56 | — | — |
| Workshops | 13 | 8 | — | — |
| Dom. Workshops | 2 | 2 | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 25 | 16 | — | — |
| Cowhouses | 20 | — | — | — |
| Milkshops | 230 | — | — | — |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 166 | 8 | — | — |
| Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers— | ||||
| Where power is used | 70 | 40 | — | — |
| Others | 211 | 109 | — | — |
| Stalls | 2,722 | — | — | — |
| Other places where food is sold, etc.— | ||||
| Where power is used | 110 | — | — | — |
| Others | 559 | 1 | — | — |
| Ice Cream Premises— | ||||
| Where power is used | 22 | — | — | — |
| Others | 123 | 1 | — | — |
| Wharves, etc., where food is prepared or stored, etc.:— | ||||
| Where power is used | — | — | — | — |
| Others | 2 | — | — | — |
| Markets— | ||||
| Morning | 219 | — | — | — |
| Evening | 77 | — | — | — |
| Miscellaneous | 921 | — | — | — |
| Total Defects, etc. | ||||
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to D.S.i. | ||
| Defects, etc., Found: | ||||
| 1. Nuisances under Public Health (London) Act— | ||||
| Want of cleanliness | 24 | 24 | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 11 | 5 | 6 | |
| 2. Offences under Factory and Workshop Act. | — | — | — | |
* Including 13 inspections under the Shops Act, and one inspection under
the Infant Life Protection Act.