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Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
The following part of this report is made pursuant to section 132
of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which provides that "The
Medical Officer of Health of every district Council shall, in his Annual
Report, to them, report specifically on the administration of this Act in
workshops and workplaces, and he shall send a copy of his Annual
Report, or so much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of
State."
At the end of 1909 there were 568 workshops in Hampstead,
including 89 domestic workshops.* Of these workshops 238 employ
women only, 281 employ men only, and in 49 both men and women are
employed.
By far the most prevalent trade in these workshops is dressmaking;
next in the order of frequency come bootmaking, tailoring,
baking, and millinery, in the order named.
The number of factories was 65.
The number of outworkers' premises was 93.
A series of statistical tables has been framed by the Home Office
"for the guidance and convenience of Medical Officers of Health in
preparing that part of their Annual Report which relates to factories,
workshops, workplaces, and home work." The tables will be found on
pages 95-98.
The following tables show the number of each class of workshops,
together with the workplaces in the same trades, in each Ward of the
Borough, the number of workrooms in the various workshops, and the
number of persons of each sex employed therein:—
* A "domestic workshop" is defined by section 115 of the Act to "mean a private
house, room or place which, though used as a dwelling, is by reason of the
work carried on there a workshop within the meaning of this
Act, and in which neither steam, water, nor other mechanical power is used in aid
of the manufacturing process carried on there, and in which the only persons
employed are members of ihe same family dwelling there.