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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

Hampstead 1904

Report for the year 1904 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: Table shewing classification of trade premises on Register, with additions and removals during 1904:—

Table shewing classification of trade premises on Register, with additions and removals during 1904:—

Class of Work.On register at end of 1903.Added in 1904.Removed in 1904.On register at end of 1904.
Factories—
Factory Laundries51–2
Factory Bakehouses2––2
Other Factories2619243
Workshops—I
Workshop Laundries15–96
Workshop Bakehouses391436
Other Workshops611141121631
Workplaces—I II I
Places where food is prepared for sale331––331
Laundries38101038
Other Workplaces–330–330

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A noticeable feature is the gradual diminution in the number of
workshop laundries; there were 22 of these at the end of 1902, there
are now only 6. This is due, no doubt, to the difficulty of hand
laundries competing successfully with the large steam "Factory Laundries,"
and partly to the hand laundries removing further from London
in order to get larger premises at lower rents.