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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——
Dressmaker87125——27777
Embroiderer89——887
Farrier & Smith2629639——
Firewood Cutter1616351121
Laundry31808—104—
Mason66431——
Millinery1925——4016
Musical Instrument24392——
Photographer477182
Picture Framer3351——
Ragsorter13133671—
Saddler6612———
Tailor436771411424
Upholsterer101129—54
Other Trades99112277457615
Totals5897871,00196728146