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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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Reports of Food Inspectors.
(i) Mr. C. A. Grabham.
| Totals. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Intimations. | Reminders. | Notices served. | ||
| Stat. | Final. | ||||
| Bakehouses:— | |||||
| Factories | 110 | 2 | 43 | — | — |
| Workshops | 8 | — | 7 | — | — |
| Dom. Workshops | 13 | — | 10 | — | — |
| Slaughterhouses | 14 | 1 | 9 | — | — |
| Cowhouses | — | — | — | — | — |
| Milkshops | 51 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Restaurants and Eating Houses | 105 | 4 | — | — | — |
| Fried Fish Vendors and Fish Curers— Where power is used | 103 | 3 | 69 | — | — |
| Others | 160 | 1 | 84 | — | — |
| Stalls | 1,778 | — | — | — | — |
| Other places where food is sold, etc.— | |||||
| Where Power is used | 34 | — | — | — | — |
| Others | 225 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Ice Cream Premises— | |||||
| Where Power is used | 16 | — | — | — | — |
| Others | 93 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Wharves, etc., where food is prepared or stored, etc.— | |||||
| Where Power is used | |||||
| Others | 92 | — | — | — | — |
| Markets— | |||||
| Morning | 153 | — | — | — | — |
| Evening | 68 | — | — | — | — |
| Infant Life Protection— | |||||
| Visits | 6 | _ | — | — | — |
| Food Poisoning— | |||||
| Visits | 6 | — | — | — | — |
| Miscellaneous | 66 | — | — | — | — |
| 3,101 | 18 | 218 | — | — | |
Mr. Grabham also made 10 inspections under the Shops Act (figures are
included in above table).