[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar] page 52

Poplar 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]

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Table: Summary of Notices and Improvements carried out at the. different Manufactories and Workshops in the Bow District, during the year ending December,1896.

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Summary of Notices and Improvements carried out at the. different Manufactories and Workshops in the Bow District, during the year ending December,1896.

Nature of Nuisance.	Number of Notices served.	Cause of Nuisance.	How Remedied.
Insufficient Latrine accommodation	2	Defective sanitary arrangements	Accommodation increased and new latrines put in.
Pipe Making	2	Chimney of kilns below window of adjoining houses	The chimneys have been raised.
State of Workshops	15	Walls and ceilings of workrooms dirty and dilapidated	Workrooms thoroughly cleansed.
Overcrowding in workrooms	4	In each case the rooms were found to be overcrowded	Overcrowding abated.
Smoke Nuisances	11	Burning of inferior fuel and defective apparatus	Better class of fuel used and apparatus repaired.
Laundries	3	Insufficient ventilation defective paving, etc.	Ventilation improved, paving repaired.
Felt Works	1	Noxious vapours were emitted from mixing tank	The mixing tank has been repaired.
Whalebone Works	1	Nuisance caused by boiling whalebone in open pot	The process is now carried on in close vessels.
Refuse Burning	2	Nuisance caused by burning bass refuse	Nuisance discontinued.
Cork Burning	1	Cork burning in the open.	The operation is now carried on in a chamber
Chemical Works	1	Large escape of noxious gases from main shaft	The condensing power has been increased.