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Nature of
Sample
No. of
samples
examined
No. of samples
containing above
prescribed
limit of
preservative
Cream 0 0
Milk 255 0
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops and workplaces on the register at
the end of 1925 was 2,423, compared with 2,301 at the end of 1024.
During the year under review, 103 entries were removed from the
register owing to the closing of premises, the conversion of workshops
into factories by the introduction of some form of mechanical
power, or to the removal of the occupiers to other places of business.
The number of workshops and workplaces newly registered
was 315. The factories on the register at the end of 1025 numbered
1,813, compared with 1,714 at the end of 1924.
The list included 14 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.
The following lists indicate the workshops, workplaces and
factories on the registers and show the large variety of manufacturing
processes which are carried on in Finsbury :—
Factories.—Cardboard box making 44, instrument, jewellery,
etc., box making 17, packing case making 26, brushes and combs 9,
house repairs and decorating 6, patent flooring 1, tarred felt making
1, clock and watch case making 11, watch making and repairing 15,
cloth shrinking 4, pleating 1, disinfectants and soaps manufacturing
4, drug grinding 1, druggists sundries 10, making and repairing
addressing machines 1, making and repairing motors and cycles 23,
making and repairing domestic machinery 5, making and repairing
springs 1, making and repairing typewriting machinery 2, model
and pattern making 7, smithing and wheelwrights' work 11, making
and repairing sewing machines 7, making and repairing electrical