Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fifty-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1906
INSPECTOR WEST'S REPORT.
Town Hall,
Upper Street, Islington, N.
March 18 th, 1907.
To A. E. Harris, Esq.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I have much pleasure in submitting my report to you for the year ending the 29th
of December, 1906. During that time I have made 3,185 visits to various places of business,
consisting of factories, workshops and workplaces in the Borough, having made 1,656
inspections and 1,529 re-inspections. The visits to the trades carried on in them were as
follows:—186 tailors, 306 shoemakers, 101 pianoforte makers, 155 homeworkers, 362 bakehouses,
360 restaurants, etc., and 1,715 miscellaneous.
Artificial florists 2
Artificial limb maker 1
Bakehouses 260
Beer bottlers 2
Builders, etc 12
Basket makers 3
Blacksmiths 8
Blind makers 3
Brush maker 1
Bamboo cane workers 3
Confectioners 8
Cycle makers 22
Cabinet makers 38
Condiment maker 1
Coach plater 1
Coppersmith 1
Camera maker 1
Cardbox box makers 3
Card edge gilder 1
Cap maker 1
Clay pipe maker 1
Cork cutter 1
Cattle food maker 1
Cribbage board maker 1
Cooper 1
Dairy can maker 1
Dye works 1
Engineers 7
Farriers 26
9 2
Furriers 14
Fancy brooch maker 1
File cutter 1
Gun makers 2
Gold beaters, etc 2
Glazier 1
Glove maker 1
Harness makers 6
Hat shape makers 3
Ink maker, etc. 1
Leather goods maker 4
Ladder maker, etc. 1
Lath renders 2
Lamp makers 2
Marquetry workers 3
Marble masons 6
Musical instrument maker 1
Motor works 9
Mount maker 1
Mop maker 1
Musical string maker 2
Naturalist 1
Overmantle makers 2
Optician 1
Organ builders 2
Pianoforte makers 47
Provision dealers 4
Plumbers 5
Picture frame makers 3