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Islington 1902

Forty-seventh annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Borough of Islington

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[1902

Giving a Summary ofMiss Gray's Factory and Workshop Workduring theYear1902.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK.Quarter ending 29th Mar., 1902.Quarter ending 28th June, 1902.Quarter ending 27th Sept., 1902.Ouarter ending 3rd Jan., 1903.Total tor Year ending 3rd Jan , 1903
Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.Dressmakers & Ladies' Tailors.Laundries.Miscellaneous.Total.
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries, etc. Number of on the Register39019647010564041984781080408202482109240419948110844041994811084
,, Number of Workrooms therein50751074817655255147621801530522769182152651077618125265107761812
Number of Inspections of201392204601059321541311442193349145362614425652108891664
,, No. of Re-inspections of and calls188982365221267122442112378189390130562133995673038621732
Workrooms, Number of Inspections of288863176911282252686211291022404711709431858271550711432365
found to be overcrowded........................2..242..24
,, found to be insufficiently ventilated1....11....12....2........4....4
,, found to be in a dirty condition4671752093447516223715352474
Workshops, &c., newly discovered and registered during the year23212448275245619416392042751791491194
,, Workrooms therein measured3433673301242842181948218356410631132269
,, Reported to H.M. Inspector on discovery2111537223154084618151132966949124
,, Removed from the Register1521532123163115..13282472859661272150
Houses visited for enquiry at which no female hands were employed*5111612113263126625132643161
Workroom Cards distributed, showing number of persons permitted in each room55..328733641802742051264265614114119274
Written Intimations issued63..921586108243361217171953
Works carried out under supervision :—
(a) Additional means of ventilation provided1....11....1........2....24....4
(b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed37..101538266338476101935305335118
(c) Yards, Floors, Roofs, &c.. repaired1....1..33641031717210620834
(d) Sanitary Conveniences constructed2..46..2131517211458720
(e) Miscellaneous..11212142....21..5643714
Nuisances which came under notice during the inspections :—
(f) Drains untrapped, unventilated, &c.2..136..28........2..3510..616
(g) Sanitary Conveniences ill-lighted,unventilated and defective in water supply2..13..2131348....3335917
(h) Sanitary Conveniences supplied from drinking water cisterns........................................
(i) Cisterns dirty or uncovered3....31..233..25........7..411
(J) Dustbins, wanting or defective .2114........11242..10173238
(K) Miscellaneous74112258619511319........19283077
" Overcrowding " of Workrooms, Cases of, abated........................2....2 42..24

* Houses where a Business Plate or the Directory, or Newspaper Advertisements implied probability that Female Workers would be employed, but at which none were found