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Hammersmith 1903

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1903

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192
The following is a list of the Factories and Workshops
upon the Register:—
Restaurants, Hotels, &c 72
Bakehouses 63
Bootmakers 55
Motor and Cycle Makers and Engineers 26
Dressmakers and Milliners 215
Laundries 321
Letterpress Printers and Bookbinders 26
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 43
Smiths, Wheelwrights, and Coachbuilders 34
Tailors 42
Bottle Washing Works 12
Dry Cleaning, Dyeing, and Carpet Beating Works 16
Firewood Cutters 12
Builders and Joiners (Machine) 30
Outworkers 177
Miscellaneous 75
Total 1,219
It is obvious that without a special inspector for
the duties, it would not be practicable to at all
efficiently carry out the work imposed upon your Council
under the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901.
ICE CREAM DEALERS.
The London County Council (General Powers')
Act. 1902, which came into operation on the 1st November,
1902, by Part VIII. made provision for the
regulation, manufacture, and sale of ice cream or other
similar commodities, as follows:—
Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer
in ice creams or other similar commodity who within the
County—
(a) Causes or permits ice creams or any similar commodity
to be manufactured sold or stored in any cellar