London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Finsbury 1914

Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1914

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135
Premises.
No. of
Occupancies
No. of Persons.
Adults.
Children.
Total.
82, Bath Street 1 1 0 1
23A, Charterhouse Street 1 2 1 3
Claremont Mews 7 13 9 22
14, Clerkenwell Close 1 2 0 2
Davis'Yard 1 2 0 2
Garnault Mews 1 1 0 1
Holford Mews 3 8 1 9
Holford Yard 3 8 4 12
Jay's Buildings ...... 8 45 27 72
119, Lever Street .... 1 2 3 5
1, New Court, Peter's Lane 1 2 4 6
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops and workplaces on the Register at
the end of 1914 was 2,018 compared with 1,984 at the end of 1913.
During the year under review 35 entries were removed from the
register owing to the closing of premises, the conversion of workshops
into factories, by the introduction of some formi of
mechanical power or to the removal of the occupiers to other
places of business. The number of workshops and workplaces
newly registered was 69.
The factories on the register at the end of 1914 numbered 1,072,
compared with 1,064 at the end of 1913. During the year nine
factories were removed from the register, 17 were added.
There were still seven tenement factories on the register at the
close of the year. The list included seven tenement factories in
which there were separate occupiers carrying on different trades
or processes and supplied with mechanical power by the owners
of the premises.