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FACTORIES.
Factories include all places in which mechanical power is used in
aid of the manufacturing processes.
The number of factories on the register at the end of the year,
including bakehouses and laundries, was 133, involving 268 rooms.
92 inspections were made and 21 notices served.
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 working there has the right of access or control.
The number of workshops on the register at the end of the year
was 252 (including bakehouses and laundries and domestic workshops)
with 361 rooms.
There is no industry peculiar to Deptford. The list of trades
carried on in the 252 workshops is as follows:—
Bakers 55
Dressmakers 64
Laundries 7
Milliners 12
Shirtmakers 2
Tailors 18
Wheelwrights, Smiths, etc. 17
Miscellaneous Workshops 77
252
The number of inspections was 317.
There were twenty notices served for defects and insanitary
conditions found.
The standard of sanitary accommodation adopted in the borough
is that laid down in the Secretary of State's Order for February 4th,
1903, viz.: One sanitary convenience for every 25 persons (with modifications
where more than one hundred persons are employed), and
with separate accommodation for the sexes where both sexes are
employed.