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 Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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WORKSHOPS*.
During 1907, 100† new Workshops have been added to the Register,‡ consisting of the following:—
Name of Trade or Business. | No. of Workshops. |
---|---|
Dressmakers | 40 |
Laundries | 6 |
Milliners | 3 |
Tailors | 15 |
Blouses | 6 |
Furrier | 1 |
Mantles | 1 |
Clothing Repairers | 1 |
Fancy Goods | 2 |
Packing | 1 |
Upholstery | 1 |
Mattress Weaving | 1 |
Cycle Making | 1 |
Underclothing | 1 |
Surgical Instruments | 1 |
Boots and Shoes | 4 |
Rag Sorting and Marine Store | 1 |
Babies Clothes. | 3 |
Postcard Colouring | 2 |
Wafer Making | 1 |
Ties | 2 |
Brush Making | 1 |
Shirts | 2 |
* The new Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, came into force on
January 1st, 1902, and entails much extra work, e.g., outworkers, etc.
† Excluding 10 factories, viz.:—4 laundries, 2 bookbinding, 1 box making,
1 shirt making, I pickling, and 1 onion peeling.
‡ The Register contains (up to the end of 1907) a total of 1437 workshops
with 2403 workrooms.