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30 in 1912 and 28 in 1911. The number of such premises and the
business carried on is shown below:—
Workshops. Workplaces.
Laundries 7 Restaurant kitchens5
Cycle-making 5 Meat-chopping 6
Fitters1 Small exempted
Rag-sorting 1 laundries 4
Coffin-making 1
Tailor 1
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 1913, there were on the
register 85 bakehouses, 14 of which were factory bakehouses, with
regard to which the duties of the Council are few, and 71 workshop
bakehouses. There is an increasing tendency to convert
workshop bakehouses in Battersea into factories by the addition
of small electro-motive machinery, five of the workshop bakehouses
having thus technically become factories during the year.
Of the workshop bakehouses, 45 are above ground and 26 underground,
according to the definition given in the Factory Act.