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glass working 27, bottle washing 4, china and glass merchants
3, musical instruments 17, optical instruments 8, photographic
8, scientific 23, surgical 12, weighing machines 3, gold beating 4,
gold and silver refining, gold and silver smiths 33, enamelling 3,
repairing and making jewellery 88, wholesale and retail jewellers
16, laundries 11, laundry receiving and sorting 17, diamond
cutting and polishing 9, general lapidary 3, metal burnishing 6,
coppersmiths 9, engraving and die sinking 55, gilding and
plating 14, farriers and smiths work 18, sheet metal working 22,
wire working 14, general metal work 51. Oil and colour manufacturing
6, sign writing 11, ink, gum and varnish making 8,
blacking and polish making 5, japanning 5. Bookselling and
publishing 21, card and book edge gilding 12, envelope and paper
bag making 6, machine ruling 3, paper storage 14, wholesale
stationers 31, waste paper sorting 12, card mount cutting 2,
relief stamping 9, rubber goods making 10, stone and marble
working 7, statuary 1, blouse making 18, boot and shoe
repairing 35, boot and shoe warehouse 8, button making 1,
children's clothing 6, corset making 2, furriering 99, glove
making 1, hat making 48, mantle making 36, millinery 42,
necktie making 6, shirt and collar making 4, tailoring 76, underclothing
12, woollen goods 8, haberdashery 5, cigar making 1,
storage cellars 8. Firewood chopping
24, timber yards 8, wood turning 7, van building 10, wood carving
6, wood working 16. Hat block making 2, harness making and
repairing 7, mat making 1, celluloid 1, forwarding agents 44,
hardware manufacturers 23, merchants 67, stabling and garage
57, stores 49, towel supplying 3, cork cutting and working 6,
window cleaning 4, rope and twine making 4, ammunition storage
1, dyeing and cleaning 3. Total 2,221.
The persons employed in the Factories in Finsbury are
approximately males 35,976, females 30,104. In the workshops
and workplaces!—males 10,970, females 8,411. These numbers
exclude the office "hands" and clerical staffs.
During the year, 1846 first visits and 827 re-visits were made
by the Council's inspectors to factories and 2,528 first visits and
1,285 re-visits to workshops and workplaces.