London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Kensington 1925

The annual report on the health of the Borough for the year1925

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Trade or Business. Workshops. Factories. Total.
Motor engineers and garages 29 30 59
Motor spirit dealers 2 — 2
Organ builder 1 —. 1
Oxy-acetelyne welder — 1 1
Perfume manufacturer 1 — 1
Photographers 2 — 2
Photographic supplies manufacturer 1 — 1 1
Piano makers 1 1 2
Picture frame makers 8 — 8
Pipe maker — 1 1
Pottery warehouse 1 — 1
Printers 1 7 8
Rubber dealer 1 — 1
Rusk manufacturer — 1 1.
Saddlers 3 — 3
Sausage makers — 4 4
Sewing machine mechanic 1 — 1
Sign writers 4 — 4
Starch maker — I 1
Steam pressers 1 1 2
Sundry businesses 4 1 5
Sweet manufacturers 1 1 2
Tailors 46 1 47
Timber merchant — 1 1
Trunk makers 4 — 4
Undertakers 10 1 11
Upholsterers 18 1 19
Washing machine manufacturers — 2 2
Waste paper merchant 1 — 1
Watch makers 5 — 5
Wax figure manufacturers 1 1 2
Wheelwrights 7 1 8
Wine and spirit dealer 1 — 1
Wireless worker — 1 1
Total 381 173 554
Women's Workshops.—The number of workshops and factories at which female labour
was employed at the end of 1925 was 634, 185 in North Kensington and 449 in South Kensington.
The number of persons employed varies with the period of the year, being, of course, greatest
during the "season."