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working 32, bottle washing 4, china and glass merchants 3, instrument
making—musical 29, optical 9, photographic 9, scientific 30,
surgical 13; weighing machines 3, gold beating 5, gold and silver
refining 12, gold and silver smiths 41, enamelling 4, repairing and
making jewellery 91, wholesale and retail jewellers 28, laundries 9,
laundry receiving and sorting 18, diamond cutting and polishing 10,
general lapidary 3, metal burnishing 6, coppersmiths 7, engraving
and die sinking 59, gilding and plating 12, farriers' and smiths'
work 18, sheet metal working 22, wire working 15, general metal
work 41, oil and colour manufacturing 6, sign writing 13, ink, gum
and varnish making 6, blacking and polish making 3, japanning 5,
Bookselling and publishing 23, card and book edge gilding 15,
envelope and paper bag making 6, machine ruling 4, paper
storage 16, wholesale stationers 28, waste paper sorting 13, card
mount cutting 4, relief stamping 11, lithographers 5, rubber goods
making 11, ebonite workers 3, stone and marble working 6,
statuary 9, blouse making 17, boot and shoe repairing 26, boot and
shoe warehouse 9, button making 2, children's clothing 5, corset
making 3, furriering 113, glove making 1, hat making 42, mantle
making 35, millinery 49, necktie making 5, shirt and collar making 2.
tailoring 78, underclothing 11, woollen goods 7, haberdashery 6,
cigar making 1, wine, spirit and tobacco storage cellars 7. Firewood
chopping 17, timber yards 9, wood turning 6, van building 7, wood
carving 7, wood working 16, hat block making 3, harness making
and repairing 7, mat making 1, celluloid workers 1, forwarding
agents 31, hardware manufacturers 26, miscellaneous merchants 50,
stabling and garage 34, stores 41, towel supplying 4, cork cutting
and working 5, window cleaning 3, rope and twine making 4,
ammunition storage 1, dyeing and cleaning 4. Total 2,493.
The persons employed in the factories in Finsbury are,
approximately : Males 38,239, females 32,176. In the workshops
and workplaces : Males 11,896, females 8,487 ; these numbers
exclude the office " hands " and clerical staffs.
During the year 1,829 first visits and 1,165 revisits were made
by the Council's inspectors to factories, and 2,093 first visits and
1,239 revisits to workshops and workplaces.