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Underground Workrooms.
Excluding the underground bakehouses, there are 29 underground
workshops and workplaces in Battersea, as compared with
37 in 1909. The number of such premises and the business carried
on, is shown below :—
Workshops. Workplaces
Laundries 8 Restaurant kitchens 4
Picture-frame making 2 Meat chopping 6
Cycle making 3 Small exempted laundries 4
Fitters 2
Bakehouses.
Bakehouses are either factories or workshops within the meaning
of the Act, according as mechanical power is, or is not, used in aid
of the processes carried on. They are therefore subject to the
provisions of the Act, and although in the main the factory bake
houses in the Borough are supervised by the Factory Inspector, by
far the greater part of the work connected with the sanitary super
vision of bakehouses in Battersea devolves upon the Council as the
Sanitary Authority.
In the Borough of Battersea during 1910, there were on the
register 88 bakehouses, eight of which were factory bakehouses,
with regard to which the duties of the Council are few, and 80
workshop bakehouses. Of the latter, 49 are above ground and 31
underground, according to the definition given in the Factory Act.