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"The net result is an increase of 15 registered workshops
in North Kensington, and a decrease of 6 in South Kensington,
making a total increase of 9 registered workshops for the
whole parish, Holland-park-avenue and Notting-hill Highstreet
separating the two districts. At the end of the year
672 places (comprising an aggregate of 1208 rooms) were on
the register, viz.:—
Workshops,
etc.
North Kensington.
South Kensington.
Total
for
whole
Parish.
Dressmakers.
Laundries.
Miscellaneous.
Total.
Dressmakers.
Laundries.
Miscellaneous.
Total.
Number on
Register
113 211 27 351
267 23 31 321
672
Number of
Rooms therein
132 475 36 643
488 43 34 565
1,208
"In these 672 workshops, etc., there are employed, on an
an average, 8,000 women and girls.
"Cubic Space.—In the 92 workshops, etc. newly registered,
114 rooms were measured in order to ascertain the
number of persons who may lawfully occupy each room, upon
the scale of 250 cubic feet per person, in accordance with the
requirements of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, section
1. Numerous other rooms in workshops already registered
were also measured, such rooms having been enlarged, or newly
opened as additional workrooms.
"Overcrowding.—Fifteen rooms were found to be overcrowded,
being eleven less than in 1897. All the cases occurred
during the period known as the 'London Season,' and were
chiefly in dressmakers' establishments in the south district.
In one case, with cubic space for 5, 8 persons were found
working; in another case, with cubic space for 12, 15 persons
were found, while in a third case, with cubic space for 5, 7