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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ilford 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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SECTION VII.—FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. F
There are 134 factories on the register, made up as follows :—
| Alloy Moulder | 1 | Metal and Brass Finisher | |
| Asphalte Manufacturers | 1 | Motor Engineering | 8 |
| Bakehouses | 14 | Nautical Instrument Makers | |
| Boot Making and Repairing | 20 | ||
| Optician | 2 | ||
| Builders, Joinery and Carpentry Works | 5 | Paper Mills | 2 |
| Photographic Works | |||
| Cabinet Maker | Picture Moulding | ||
| Cardboard Box Maker | 1 | Plating and Enamelling | |
| Carriage Works | 2 | Printing Works | 7 |
| Chemical Works | Rag and General Merchant | ||
| Collar Works | 2 | Saw Mills | 6 |
| Corset Makers | 1 | Seed Sorting | |
| Cutlery Grinding | 2 | Tarpaulin Repairing Works | |
| Cycle Repairing | 1 | Tool Engineers | 2 |
| Electric Wire and Battery Works | 2 | Toy Makers | 2 |
| Umbrella Repairing | 1 | ||
| Engineers | 11 | Vulcanising Works | |
| Fancy Bag Makers | Watchmaker and Repairer | ||
| Gear Cutting | 1 | Wearing Apparel Makers | 6 |
| Hardware Manufacturers | Wireless Apparatus | 2 | |
| Iron Cutting Works | Wood Cutting | 2 | |
| Laundries | 5 | ||
| Leather Belting | |||
| Leather and Cloth Works | Total | 134 | |
| Meat Cutting | 7 | ||
| Mechanical Dentist | |||
There are 413 workshops on the register, made up as follows :—
| Art Pottery Worker | 1 | Embroidery | 11 |
| Artificial Flowers | 2 | Feather Cleaning | 1 |
| Bakehouses | 14 | Florists | 2 |
| Blacksmiths | 5 | French Polisher | 3 |
| Bookbinder | 1 | Furniture Repairs | 3 |
| Boot Repairing | 35 | Furriers | 1 |
| Boot and Shoe Sewing | 3 | Galvanised Iron Works | 1 |
| Brush Worker | 4 | Glass Cutters and Glaziers | 2 |
| Builders | 17 | Grate and Furnace Makers | 1 |
| Carpenters | 16 | Hand Laundry | 1 |
| Carpet Planning | 1 | Hairdressing | 2 |
| Cleaning and Pressing Clothes | 3 | Ladies' Belt Maker | 1 |
| Leather Worker | 4 | ||
| Clergy Robes | 1 | Meat Cutting | 1 |
| Coach Builders | 2 | Mechanical Dentist | 2 |
| Confectionery | 2 | Millinery | 29 |
| Dairy Utensil Maker | 1 | Metal Moulders | 2 |
| Dressmakers | 43 | Motor Cab Proprietor | 1 |
| Drug Packing, etc. | 1 | Motor and Cycle Engineering and Repairing | 30 |
| Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 7 | ||
| Optician | 1 |