Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The following table shows the various trades and occupations carried on in registered workshops and factories where men are employed :—
Trade or Business. | Workshops. | Factories. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|
Aerated water manufacturers | - | 2 | 2 |
Bakers | 68 | 32 | 100 |
Basket makers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Blacksmiths | 7 | — | 7 |
Blind makers | 2 | — | 2 |
Boot makers and repairers | 71 | 16 | 87 |
Builders | 45 | 11 | 56 |
Cabinet makers | 13 | 4 | 17 |
Cigarette makers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Coach builders | 9 | 3 | 12 |
Coal wharves | 2 | — | 2 |
Cooked meat dealers | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Cycle repairers | 6 | 1 | 7 |
Dyers | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Electricity generating stations | — | 4 | 4 |
Electric light fitting makers | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Firewood choppers | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Furriers | 5 | — | 5 |
Gas works | — | 2 | |
Ice cream manufacturers | 1 | — | 1 |
Instrument makers | — | 3 | 3 |
Ironmongers | 2 | — | 2 |
Ladder makers | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Lampshade makers | 2 | — | 2 |
Laundries | 6 | 17 | 23 |
Marine stores | 3 | — | 3 |
Masons | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Metal workers | 9 | 8 | 17 |
Motor engineers and garages | 38 | 31 | 69 |
Motor spirit dealers | 3 | — | 3 |
Photographers | 3 | — | 3 |
Piano makers | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Picture frame makers | 10 | — | 10 |
Pipe makers | — | 2 | 2 |
Printers | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Saddlers | 3 | — | 3 |
Sausage makers | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Sign writers | 5 | — | 5 |
Steam pressers | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Sundry businesses | 32 | 14 | 46 |
Sweet manufacturers | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Tailors | 73 | 2 | 75 |
Timber merchants | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Trunk makers | 4 | — | 4 |
Undertakers | 11 | 1 | 12 |
Upholsterers | 20 | 1 | 21 |
Washing machine manufacturers | — | 2 | 2 |
Watch makers | 6 | — | 6 |
Wax figure manufacturers | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Wheelwrights | 7 | 1 | 8 |
Total | 494 | 186 | 680 |