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Factories and Workshops in the United Parishes.
During the year only one notice has been received from the
Factory Inspector as to the opening of any new premises in
the district as a workshop.
All the factories and workshops in the various wards have
been duly visited and inspected during the year. In Wards
1 and 2, St. Margaret, there are several large workshops, e.g.,
Messrs. Harvey & Nicholls and Messrs. Wooland & Co. employ
a large number of dressmakers, milliners and tailors, in
addition to a large number of shop assistants; the number of
employes being rarely under a thousand. The Incandescent
Gas Light Company employ, on an average, 500 female and
100 male workers.
The Army and Navy Stores have a block of buildings in
Francis-place, which is used as workshops, stores, clerks'
offices, in which there are about six or seven hundred men
and from 100 to 150 women employed. There are also certain
tailors' workshops on the roof of the building at 105, Victoriastreet,
where there are about 60 tailors at work. The Army
and Navy Auxiliary Stores in Prancis-street and Cobourg-row
have a few small workshops for costume making, millinery,
flowers and hairdressing, employing about 30 women and 10
men.
The great majority of the other workshops in the district
are tailors, dressmakers, laundresses and shoemakers, and
most of them employ only a very few hands.
In Wards 1 and 3, St. John, there are 53 factories and
workshops, some of the owners employing a large number of
hands. During the year several intimations were served
requiring the owners to limewhite and cleanse their premises.
Many of these workplaces are visited by the Home Office
Inspector, but no complaint has been received as to their
condition during the past year.
The following are some of the chief factories and workshops
in Wards Nos. 1 and 3, St. John:—
Messrs. de Selincourt, employing on an average 200 hands.
,, Mowlem ,, ,, 120 „
„ Trollope ,, „ 160 ,,
Army & Navy Factory, Jolinson-street, employing on an average
200 to 250 hands.
Messrs. Sugg, employing on an average 250 to 300 hands.
,, Farmiloe ., „ 80 hands.
In Wards No. 3, St. Margaret, and No. 2, St. John, the
chief factories and workshops are: Messrs. Cowan's, Gas
Meter Manufacturers, employing 150 men; Messrs. Broadwood,
employing from 400 to 500 men; Messrs. Vacher,
Printers, employing about 61 men ; Westminster Brewery, 68