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Battersea 1913

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1913

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Workshops.
Workshops include any premises (not being factories) in
which manual labour is exercised by way of trade or for purposes
of gain in or incidental to the making, altering, repairing,
finishing or adapting for sale of any article, and to or over which
the employer of the persons there has the right of access or
control.
The workshops in Battersea are under the supervision of
two Workshop Inspectors, one male and one female, who deal
respectively with premises where male or female labour is
employed.

The following is a list of the workshops on the register at the end of 1913:—

Trade.Number of Works. shops.Numberof Works rooms.Persons Employed.
Males.Females.
Adults.Young Persons.Adults.Young Persons.
Baker71101156ll
Billiard Table Maker12102
Blind Maker49181
Bootmaker6365112131
Carpenter1415255l
Coach Builder71642
Cycle Maker1116208
Dressmaker8712527777
Embroiderer89887
Farrier & Smith2629639
Firewood Cutter1616351121
Laundry31808104
Mason66431
Millinery19254016
Musical Instrument24392
Photographer477182
Picture Framer3351
Ragsorter13133671
Saddler6612
Tailor436771411424
Upholsterer10112954
Other Trades99112277457615
Totals5897871,00196728146