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98
Underground Workrooms.
Excluding the underground bakehouses, there are 30 underground
workshops and workplaces in Battersea, as compared with
28 in 1911, and 29 in 1910. The number of such premises and the
business carried on is shown below:—
Workshops.
Laundries 8
Picture-frame making 2
Cycle Making 3
Fitters 1
Rag-sorting 1
Coffin-making 1
Workplaces.
Restaurant kitchens 4
Meat chopping 6
Small exempted laundries 4
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 bakehouses
in the Borough are supervised by the Factory Inspector, by far the
greater part of the work connected with the sanitary supervision of
bakehouses in Battersea devolves upon the Borough Council as the
sanitary authority.
In the Borough of Battersea during 1912 there were on the register
86 bakehouses, 9 of which were factory bakehouses with regard
to which the duties of the Council are few, and 77 workshop bakehouses.
Of the latter 47 are above ground and 30 underground
according to the definition given in the Factory Act.