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 Kensington Borough]
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The following table shows the various trades and occupations carried on in registered workshops and factories where men are employed:—
Trade or Business. | Workshops. | Factories. | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Aerated water manufacturers | — | 1 | 1 |
Bakers | 38 | 35 | 73 |
Basket makers | 2 | — | 2 |
Blacksmiths | 12 | — | 12 |
Blind makers | 1 | — | 1 |
Boot makers and repairers | • 64 | 16 | 80 |
Builders | 45 | 9 | 54 |
Cabinet makers | 10 | 3 | 13 |
Cigarette makers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Coach builders | 10 | 3 | 13 |
Coal wharves | 2 | — | 2 |
Cooked meat dealers | — | 2 | 2 |
Cycle repairers | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Dyers | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Electricity generating stations | — | 2 | 2 |
Electric light fitting makers | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Firewood choppers | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Furriers | 4 | — | 4 |
Gas works | — | 2 | 2 |
Ice cream manufacturers | 3 | — | 3 |
Instrument makers | — | 3 | 3 |
Ironmongers | 2 | — | 2 |
Ladder makers | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Lampshade makers | 2 | — | 2 |
Laundries | 4 | 12 | 16 |
Marine stores | 1 | — | 1 |
Masons | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Metal workers | 9 | 4 | 13 |
Motor engineers and garages | 39 | 26 | 65 |
Motor spirit dealers | — | 1 | 1 |
Photographers | 3 | — | 3 |
Piano makers | — | 1 | 1 |
Picture frame makers | 7 | — | 7 |
Pipe makers | — | 1 | 1 |
Printers | 5 | 7 | 12 |
Saddlers | 2 | — | 2 |
Sausage makers | 7 | 6 | 13 |
Sign writers | 5 | — | 5 |
Steam pressers | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Sundry businesses | 59 | 12 | 71 |
Sweet manufacturers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Tailors | 76 | 1 | 77 |
Timber merchants | 1 | — | 1 |
Trunk makers | 3 | — | 3 |
Undertakers | 6 | 1 | 7 |
Upholsterers | 21 | — | 21 |
Washing machine manufacturers | — | 1 | 1 |
Watch makers | 7 | — | 7 |
Wax figure manufacturers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Wheelwrights | — | 2 | 2 |
Total | 473 | 168 | 641 |