London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Poplar 1953

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

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Retail premises 1,028
(Grocers 207; Confectioners 106; Restaurants 128; Industrial canteens 105;
Non-industrial canteens 35; School meals centres 23; Public houses 175;
Off-licences 25; Continental butchers 1; Bakers 37; Fishmongers 45;
Herbalists 1; Greengrocers 68s Butchers 59; Chemists 13).
Street market stalls 130
Coffee stalls 10
Slaughterhouses 3 (Note - none of these were used during the year).
Registered premises.
Food & Drugs Act, 1938. Section 14
(a) Ice cream: Manufacture and sale 31
Sale and storage 154
(Note - in addition to the premises referred to above ice cream is also sold
from 37 premises exempt from registration, i.e. Restaurants, Cinemas, etc.).
(b) Sausages and preserved, etc., foods 51
Food & Drugs Act, 1938, Section 34.
Wholesale Dealers in Margarine 8
Butter factories 2
(Note - no butter blending took place at either of these premises during the
year).
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