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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
Finsbury 1903
Report on the public health of 1903
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We have also instituted a factory register which, though not a
statutory requirement, will prove of considerable value.
The following Table shows the various trades and occupations carried on in factories in the Borough of Finsbury which are now on the factory register of this department:-
| Printers and Stationers | 29 | Silk Weaving | 3 |
| Engineers | 14 | Stick Mounting and Making | 3 |
| Ivory, Bone & Wood Turners | 10 | Brass Finishing | 2 |
| Gilders and Platers | 7 | Coach-building | 2 |
| Cabinet-makers | 5 | Confectionery and Cocoa | 2 |
| Cycles and Motors | 5 | Distillery, &c. | 2 |
| Glass Workers | 5 | Leather Goods | 2 |
| Pianofortes | 5 | Marble-workers | 2 |
| Box-makers | 4 | Metal Polishers | 2 |
| Cigar and Cigarette Makers | 4 | Rubber Goods | 2 |
| Laundries & Collar Dressers | 4 | Smiths | 2 |
| Book-binders | 3 | Surgical Instruments | 2 |
| Foundries | 3 | Wheelwrights | 2 |
| Mantle-making | 3 | Miscellaneous (1 of each) | 39 |
| Paper Goods | 3 | ||
| Pipe-makers and Mounters | 3 | Total | 177 |
| Shirts and Pyjamas | 3 |
The difference between the above total (177) and the number of
factories on the register (159) is accounted for by the various
businesses carried on in the tenement factories.
1. Sanitary Conditions of Workshops.—
(a) Cleanliness.—Speaking generally, it may be said that the large
workshops, which are in the majority of cases situated in comparatively
new buildings, are kept in a clean condition. Many of these
have to do with the making of dress materials or wearing apparel,