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Poplar 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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List of Outworkers, Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (S. 107).

Class of Homework.1937 Number of Lists received.Number of Addresses of Outworkers.
Due Feb. 1st.Due Aug. 1st.Forwarded to other Authorities.Received from other Authorities.
No. of Lists.No. of Outworkers.No. of Lists.No. of Outworkers.Due Feb. 1.Due Aug. 1.Due Feb. 1.Due Aug. 1.
Total3942038340292234273241
Wearing
apparel3233632287247205201184
Paper bags, boxes, etc.635546112733
Miscellaneous152143426954

Table E.

Registered Workshops and Workplaces.

Workshops and Workplaces, etc., on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.Number.
(1)(2)
Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here.Bakehouse Workshops7
Bakehouse Domestic Workshops3
Laundries Workshops2
Laundries Domestic Workshops
Workshops227
Domestic Workshops22
Workplaces366
Domestic Workplaces44
Places where food is sold or prepared1098*
Total number of workshops and workplaces, etc., on Register1769

* Power is used in 81 of these premises.

Table F.

Class.Number.
(1)(2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5)
Notified by H.M. Inspector4
Reports (of action taken) sent to
H. M. Inspector3
Other (Communications)19
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year
In use at the end of the year17