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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Wharves 28.
Cold stores l.
Wholesale premises 25
(Grocers 16; Banana ripeners 4; Confectioners 5).
Retail premises 988
(Grocers 179; Confectioners 111; Pestaurants 128; Industrial canteens 98;
Non-industrial canteens 31; School meals centres 25; Public houses 171;
Off-licences 25; Bakers 33; Fishmongers 35; Herbalists 1; Greengrocers 62;
Butchers 60; Chemists 15; Miscellaneous 14).
Street market stalls 130.
Slaughterhouses 2.
Registered premises.
Food & Drugs Act, 1955. Section 16.
(a) ice cream; Manufacture and sale 15
Sale and storage 166
Storage only 2
(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 53