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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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Table C.
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and Homeworkers.
I.—INSPECTION.
| Premises. | Number of | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |||
| Intimation. | Statutory. | Final | |||
| Factories (Including Factory Bakehouses and Laundries) | 463 | 101 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Workshopsf | 256 | 35 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Workplaces | 237 | 20 | 5 | 2 | — |
| Places where food is sold or prepared! | 1701 | 303 | |||
| Homeworkers'Premises | 566 | — | — | — | |
| Total | 3223 | 459 | 9 | 4 | — |
t Including Workshop Bakehouses and Laundries.
§ The inspections of factories where food is prepared areincluded. Power is
used in 81 of the premises.
2.-—DEFECTS FOUND *
(Corresponding figures for 1937 are shown in brackets).
| Particulars. | Number of Defects. | Number of Proseou tions. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Found. | Remedied. | Referred to H.M. Inspector. | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |
| Want of cleanliness | 108 (123) | 108 (122) | — | — | |
| Want of ventilation | — | — | — | — | |
| Overcrowding | — | — | — | — | |
| Want of drainage of floors | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | — | — | |
| Other nuisances | 45 (69) | 45 (69) | — | — | |
| Sanitary accommodation | 'insufficient | 3 (3) | 3 (3) | — | — |
| unsuitable or defec | |||||
| tive | 35 (28) | 35 (28) | — | — | |
| not separate for | |||||
| sexes | — | — | — | — | |
| 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 D | |||||
| of this Report.) | |||||
| Total | 192(225) | 192 (221) | — | — | |
* These defects refer to premises mentioned above under table of Inspection.