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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1908
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1908
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The following is a list of the Factories and Workshops upon the Register:—
| Restaurants, Hotels, & c. | 135 |
| Bakehouses (5 not used at present as Bakeries) | 66 |
| Bootmakers | 69 |
| Motor and Cycle Makers and Engineers | 48 |
| Dressmakers and Milliners | 248 |
| Laundries | 305 |
| Letterpress Printers and Bookbinders | 29 |
| Electrical and Mechanical Engineers | 49 |
| Smiths, Wheelwrights and Coachbuilders | 35 |
| Tailors | 50 |
| Bottle Washing Works | 14 |
| Dry Cleaning, Dying, and Carpet Beating Works | 18 |
| Firewood Cutters | 15 |
| Builders and Joiners (Machine) | 31 |
| Outworkers | 533 |
| Miscellaneous | 108 |
| Total | 1,754 |
The whole of these premises have been under a
systematic inspection by your special Inspector
appointed for that purpose, and numerous improvements
in the sanitary condition of these premises have
been carried out under his supervision
TABLE I.
Prepared in accordance with the form required
by the Home Office on the administration of
the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, in connection
with