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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Factory and Workshop Act 1901 and the Factories Act 1937.
Table A.
Table giving number and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses,
Laundries, Workshops, Workplaces, Places where food is prepared, Milk
premises, Cowsheds, Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream
premises, and Homeworkers' premises:—
Table A.
Table giving number and inspections, etc., of Bakehouses,Laundries, Workshops.Workplaces,places where food is prepared, Milk premises,cowsheds,Slaughterhouses,Offensive Businesses,Ice Cream, premises ,and homeworkers' premises:-
| Premises. | On Register during year. | Number of Inspections. | Number of Intimations. | Number of Notices. | Number of Final Notices. | Number of Prosecutions. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male. | Female. | Total. | ||||||
| Bakehouses (Factories) | 39 | — | 39 | 216 | 81 | _ | _ | _ |
| Bakehouses (Workshops) | 6 | — | 6 | 21 | 13 | — | — | — |
| Bakehouses (Domestic | ||||||||
| Workshops) | 3 | — | 3 | 14 | 6 | — | — | — |
| Factories (Laundries | ||||||||
| and Miscellaneous | ||||||||
| Factories) | 139 | 112 | 251 | 247 | 20 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Laundries (Workshops) | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Laundries (Domestic | ||||||||
| Workshops) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Workshops | 210 | 47 | 257 | 219 | 16 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Workplaces | 236 | 18 | 254 | 237 | 20 | 5 | 2 | — |
| Places where food is | ||||||||
| sold or prepared* | 1098 | — | 1098 | 1701 | 303 | — | — | — |
| Milk Premises | 81 | — | 81 | 296 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Cowsheds | 1 | — | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 4 | — | 4 | 14 | 17 | — | — | — |
| Poultry Slaughterhouses | 2 | — | 2 | 13 | 9 | — | — | — |
| Other offensive trade | ||||||||
| premises | 4 | — | 4 | 26 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Ice Cream premises! | 240 | — | 240 | 263 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Home workers' premises | 13 | 392 | 405 | 566 | ||||
In this Table and in Table C on next page "reminders" that periodical
cleansing was due are included as "Intimations."
* Power is used in 84 of these premises.
‡ 20
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(Lists of Slaughterhouses and other offensive trade premises are given
on pages 68 and 31.)