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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, requires the Medical Officer of Health of
every District Council to report specifically on the workshops and workplaces in his district, and
to send a copy of his annual report to the Secretary of State. The total number of workshops on
the Council's register is 954. Workshops where men only are employed are placed under the
supervision of the Sanitary Inspector in whose district they are situated ; workshops where women
are employed are inspected by the Women Health Officers, who also visit the premises of homeworkers
and inspect the sanitary conveniences reserved for women in railway stations and other
public places in Kensington. The factories in the Borough number 234, and are inspected and
regulated by H.M. Inspectors under the Home Office. The Sanitary Inspectors of the Borough
Council are, however, required to ensure the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences
in factories as well as in workshops.
Men's Workshops.—At the end of the year, the registered workshops at which men alone
were employed numbered 381. The factories at which men alone were employed numbered 173.
It should be noted that by Section 157, the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
relating to temperature, drainage of floors, the exhibition of abstracts and certain other matters do
not apply to workshops conducted on the system of not employing children, young persons or
women. In London, both in factories and workshops, the provision of sanitary conveniences is
regulated by Section 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the standard adopted being
that required by the Sanitary Accommodation Order of 4th February, 1903. The following table
shows the various trades and occupations carried on in registered workshops and factories where
men alone are employed :—
Trade or Bcsinkss. Workshops. Factories. Total.
Aerated water manufacturers — 2 2
Bakers 58 31 89
Basket makers 1 1 2
Biscuit maker — 1 1
Blacksmiths 8 — 8
Blind makers 2 — 2
Boot makers and repairers 52 15 67
Box maker 1 — 1
Brush maker — 1 1
Builders 41 11 52
Cabinet makers 11 3 14
Carpet repairer 1 — 1
Chaff cutter — 1 1
Cigarette makers 2 1 3
Coach builders 9 3 12
Coal wharves 2 — 2
Composition ivory worker — 1 1
Cooked meat dealers 1 2 3
Cycle repairers 5 1 6
Dairy — 1 1
Dvers 1 2 3
Electricity generating stations — 4 4
Electric light fitting makers 2 1 3
Electric sweeping machine maker — 1 1
Enamel maker 1 — 1
Eyelet hole maker — 1 1
Firewood choppers 2 2 4
Furriers 3 — 3
Gas fittings store 1 — 1
Gas works — 2 2
Hairdresser 1 — 1
Instrument makers — 2 2
Ironmongers 2 — 2
Jewellery repairer 1 — 1
Ladder makers 1 I 2
Laundries 5 17 22
Manufacturing chemist 1 — 1
Marine stores 3 — 3
Masons 11 2
Metalworkers 7 6 13