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The other trades include:—Buttons and studs, forage,
mineral waters, wood carving and fretwork, artificial flowers,
bedding and horsehair, cornice poles, glaziers' diamonds, lamps
and lanterns, metal spinning, patterns and models, pencils and
pens, printers' materials, sports goods, fibre, phonographs, photoengraving,
mono-service vessels, locks, firewood, tar felting
scales and balances, fur and skin dressing, carpets, wharf, rouge,
cork, marble, fancy goods, canvas and hats.
It appears from the above returns that the number of trades
on the factory register has increased by 61 during the last two
years.
At the end of 1909, there were on the register 2,039 workshops
including workplaces, and 842 factories.
During the present year 311 workshops and 41 factories were
closed or removed, and 242 workshops and 94 factories re-opened
or newly established, leaving on the register at the end of 1910 :
workshops 1,970, and factories 895, including 7 tenement
factories.
The numbers of workshops on the register for previous years
were: in 1900, 1,266; 1901, 1,356; 1902, 1,374; 1903, 1,651 ; 1904,
1,745; 1905, 1,859; 1906, 1,813; 1907, 1,923; 1908 ,2.059; and in
1909, 2,039