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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1924
Sixty-ninth annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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[1924
The various workshops and workplaces are tabulated as below :—
| Workshops and Workplaces. | 1924. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Workshops on Register. | Total Workrooms on Register. | Number added during Year. | Number removed during Year. | |
| Workshops where Men are employed | 930 | 1,384 | 132 | 75 |
| Workshops where Women arc employed | 470 | 749 | 74 | 38 |
| Laundries | 17 | 43 | - | 1 |
| Bakehouses | 236 | 245 | 2 | 2 |
| Restaurant Kitchens | 395 | 439 | 12 | 3 |
| Total | 2,048 | 2,860 | 220 | 119 |
| Outworkers' Premises | 2,811 | - | 588 | 343 |
Workshops Notified to Home Office, 1924.
| Trade. | Number of Workshops. | Protected Employed Persons. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women. | Male Young Persons. | Total. | ||
| Dressmaking | 12 | 54 | - | 54 |
| Furriers | 2 | 4 | — | 4 |
| Handbags | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Boxes | 1 | 7 | . — | 7 |
| Wireless Apparatus | 3 | 9 | 10 | 19 |
| Umbrellas | 1 | 1 | — | 1 |
| Tailor | 3 | 7 | — | 7 |
| Artificial Flowers | 1 | 50 | — | 50 |
| Tie making | 1 | 2 | — | 2 |
| Millinery | 3 | 14 | — | 14 |
| Photo Frames | 1 | 6 | — | 6 |
| Mantles | 1 | 4 | — | 4 |
| Confectionery | 4 | 44 | 1 | 45 |
| Dyeing | 1 | 4 | — | 4 |
| Embroidery | 1 | 3 | — | 3 |
| Wireworker | 1 | — | 3 | 3 |
| Wood Carving | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Clock cases | 1 | 1 | I | 9 |
| Waterproof Clothing | 1 | 3 | — | 3 |
| Piano Makers | 4 | — | 6 | 6 |
| Aluminium Foundry | 1 | — | 2 | 2 |
| Cabinet Making | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Cycle Making | 1 | — | 3 | 3 |
| Patent Flooring | 1 | — | 2 | 2 |
| Motor Making | 2 | — | 3 | 3 |
| Baby Carriage Making | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Total | 52 | 214 | 35 | 249 |
INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES. Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | WrittenNotices | Prosecutions. | |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) |
| Factories | 615 | 75 | Nil. |
| (Including Factory Laundries) Workshops | 968 | 122 | |
| (Including Workshop Laundries) Workplaces | 1,138 | 83 | ,, |
| (Other than Outworkers' premises) Miscellaneous Re-Inspections and calls | 5,271 | - | |
| Total | 7,992 | 280 | Nil. |