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Re-port of the Medical Officer of Health.
I71
Table LVII. shows the number of factories, workshops,
domestic workshops, and outworkers' premises on the register in
1902, the number removed from, the number added during 1903,
and the number on the register at the end of 1903. The number
of workrooms in workshops and workplaces is also shown.
The factories and workshops are divided into dressmakers'
and milliners' premises, laundries, and miscellaneous premises.
Of the total number of factories where women are employed
57 are laundries and nine other factories, while of the total workshops,
viz.:—462, 298 are dressmakers and milliners, 375 are
laundries, and 63 miscellaneous.
The total number of domestic workshops on the register in
1902 was 177 and 245 in 1903. Nearly all the occupiers of these
are dressmakers or milliners.
The number of workplaces has increased from 116 to 366.
These are all small laundries which do not come under the Act,
but which are registered as workplaces. It is most necessary that
such places should be regularly inspected. 274 of these were
found to be in a dirty condition and one insufficiently ventilated.
34 notices were served under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891 for the abatement of these nuisances and all were abated.
Table LVIII. shows the nature of the trades carried on in the
workshops inspected.
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