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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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(2) Mr. H. A. Pearce.
| Totals. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Intimations. | Reminders. | Notices served | ||
| Stat. | Final | ||||
| Bakehouses:— | |||||
| Factories | 106 | 3 | 48 | — | — |
| Workshops | 10 | 2 | 6 | — | — |
| Dom. Workshops | 7 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 13 | — | 16 | — | — |
| Cowhouses | 18 | — | — | — | — |
| Milkshops | 243 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 145 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers— | |||||
| Where Power is used | 75 | 2 | 37 | 1 | — |
| Others | 183 | 1 | 103 | — | — |
| Stalls | 2,597 | — | — | — | |
| Other places where food is sold, etc.— | |||||
| Where Power is used | 137 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Others | 382 | 6 | — | 1 | — |
| Ice Cream Premises— | |||||
| Where Power is used | 45 | — | — | — | — |
| Others | 127 | — | — | — | — |
| Wharves, etc., where food is prepared or stored, etc.:— | |||||
| Where Power is used | — | — | — | — | — |
| Others | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Markets— | |||||
| Morning | 206 | — | — | — | — |
| Evening | 71 | — | — | — | — |
| Miscellaneous | 57 | — | — | — | — |
| 4,423 | 21 | 212 | 3 | — | |
Mr. Pearce also made 3 visits under the Infant Life Protection Act (figures
included in above table under ' 'Miscellaneous'').