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Islington 1897

Forty-second annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Islington

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Table XCVIII.—Summary of Miss Gray's Work-shops Reports, from 4th January, 1897, to1st January, 1898.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK.Quarter ending 3rd April, 1897.Quarter ending 3rd July, 1897.Quarter ending 2nd Oct., 1897.Quarter ending 1st January, 1898.TotalforYear ending 1stJanuary, 1898.
Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' TailorsLaundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.MiscellaneousTotal.
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, &c. Number of on the Register................................354196400948
„ Number of Workrooms therein................................4385286161582
,, Number of Inspections of13252122306819913531515015182347721831383934353495771361
„ Number of Re-inspections of13139147317949511530412157131309751981173904213895101320
Workrooms, Number of Inspections of15513217446111528119058619232268492984751907635609208232302
„ found to be overcrowded1.12....332..24....223..811
,, found to be insufficiently ventilated........1214....11..1..11326
,, found to be in a dirty condition..617221123512..14261331145156038113
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered361357237624671532745128254510018111229
,, Workrooms therein measured36339783915288215442611515295910537138280
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery22..16382731545421016122253965766138
„ Removed from the Register................................39103887
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed*24124492752052144314995923741584173
Workroom Cards distributed, showing number of persons permitted in each room31..366738..64417..213811..243597..87184
Written Intimations issued7310204101125959232271443224544111
Works carried out under supervision:—
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided........1...1....1113262338
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed....11..731051842762183511461673
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c., repaired3191314101512632142663620372885
(d) Sanitary Conveniences repaired................21..3110112311115
Nuisances which came under notice during the inspections:—
(e) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c.192234498825..12021314522312556112
(f) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted, unventilated and defective in water supply2147424103181221421811181847
(g) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns4..591....1....11..11251713
(h) Cisterns dirty or defective325101113........131556718
(i) Dustbins, wanting or defective11242136....552102145121229
(j) Miscellaneous55112141692932914337747156035110
"Overcrowding" of Workrooms, Cases of, abated1..121.121..341..344812
* Houses where a BusinessPlate or the Directory, or Newspaper Advertisements implied probability that Female Workerswouldbe employed, but at whichnone were found.