Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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There are about 2,000 shops in the Borough, comprising 65 trades, and during the past year 1,019 inspections have been made as follows: —
Grocers, Provision and General | 628 |
Drapers | 117 |
Bakers | 56 |
Butchers | 41 |
Greengrocers | 41 |
Milliners | 23 |
Oil Stores | 16 |
Tobacco | 15 |
Hosiers | 14 |
Boot | 12 |
Barbers | 10 |
Tailors | 9 |
Corn dealers | 8 |
Confectioners | 6 |
Ham and Beef | 4 |
Fancy | 3 |
Fishmongers | 3 |
On Licences | 3 |
Fruiterers | 2 |
Coffee and Dining Rooms | 2 |
Music | 2 |
Dairy | 1 |
Chemist | 1 |
Florist | 1 |
Off Licence | 1 |
As a result of the Inspections made, 385 contraventions were
discovered, resulting in legal proceedings being instituted in 40
instances, as follows:—
Contravening the Grocers', Provision Dealers' and
General Shop-keepers' Half-holiday Order 18
Do. Butchers' Closing Order 6
Employing children during prohibited hours 17
Failure to exhibit Notice 1
Two cases that were dismissed related to proceedings
under the Butchers' Closing Order, and referred in the first
instance to a provision dealer selling salt pork after the butchers'