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food stuffs 69, glass working 32, bottle washing 4, china and glass
merchants 3, instrument making —musical 27, optical 9, photographic
9, scientific 30, surgical 13; weighing machines 3, gold beating 4, gold
and silver refining 12, gold and silver smiths 42, enamelling 4,
repairing and making jewellery 91, wholesale and retail jewellers 33,
laundries 8, laundry receiving and sorting 19, diamond cutting and
polishing 10, general lapidary 3, metal burnishing 5, coppersmiths 9,
engraving and die sinking 64, gilding and plating 8, farriers' and
smiths' work 17, sheet metal working 20, wire working 14, general
metal work 42, oil and colour manufacturing 7, sign writing 14, ink,
gum and varnish making 6, blacking and polish making 5, japanning
3. Bookselling and publishing 21, card and book edge gilding 16,
envelope and paper bag making 6, machine ruling 4, paper
storage 16, wholesale stationers 28, waste paper sorting 12, card
mount cutting 6, relief stamping 11, lithographers 3, rubber goods
making 10, ebonite workers 2, stone and marble working 4,
statuary 7, blouse making 17, boot and shoe repairing 35, boot and
shoe warehouse 7, button making 1, children's clothing 5, corset
making 3, furriering 127, glove making 1, hat making 45, mantle
making 36, millinery 40, necktie making 5, shirt and collar making 2,
tailoring 74, underclothing 11, woollen goods 6, haberdashery 7,
cigar making 2, wine, spirit and tobacco storage cellars 7. Firewood
chopping 17, timber yards 11, wood turning 7, van building 7, wood
carving 7, wood working 15, hat block making 3, harness making
and repairing 7, mat making 1, celluloid workers 1, forwarding
agents 30, hardware manufacturers 28, miscellaneous merchants 44,
stabling and garage 37, stores 40, towel supplying 4, cork cutting
and working 5, window cleaning 3, rope and twine making 4,
ammunition storage 1, dyeing and cleaning 4. Total 2,411.
The persons employed in the factories in Finsbury are
approximately: Males 38,426, females 32,276. In the workshops
and workplaces: Males 12,122, females 8,764; these numbers
exclude the office "hands" and clerical staffs.
During the year 2,115 first visits and 1,105 revisits were made
by the Council's inspectors to factories, and 2,508 first visits and
967 revisits to workshops and workplaces.
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