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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The following table gives a summary of the factories on the Council's register at the end of the year, indicating the types of business carried on, whether or not mechanical power is used, and where situated, ioeo North or South Kensington:-
Factory - business | North Kensington | South Kensington | ||
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Mech. | N-M. | Mech. | N-M. | |
Bakers and. Confectioners | 5 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
Belt and Button Manufacturers | 2 | - | - | 1 |
Builders and Decorators | 7 | 4 | 11 | 12 |
Carton Making and Salvage | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Coffee Grinding and Roasting | 1 | - | 5 | - |
Cosmetics and Toilet Preparations | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
Dental Mechanics | 1 | - | 3 | - |
Disinfectants | 1 | - | - | - |
Display Works and Signwriting | 4 | 3 | - | 1 |
Doll and Toy Manufacturers | 7 | 5 | 3 | - |
Dressmaking | 11 | - | 31 | 15 |
Drug Manufacturers | - | 1 | - | - |
Dyers and Cleaners | 8 | 1 | 10 | - |
Electro-Platers | 2 | - | - | - |
Engineering (Elec.) | 7 | - | 3 | 2 |
Engineering (Mech.) | 21 | - | 7 | - |
Electrical Generating Stations | 2 | - | 2 | - |
Film Editing and Slide Making | 1 | - | - | - |
Furriers | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
Gas Works | 1 | - | - | - |
Glass Cutting and Polishing | 5 | - | 4 | - |
Handbags and Shopping Bags | 2 | - | - | 1 |
Ice Cream Manufacture | 1 | - | - | - |
Jewellers and Watchmakers | 4 | - | 3 | 3 |
Lamp Shade Manufacturers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Laundries | 15 | - | 6 | - |
Leather Goods | 5 | - | 1 | 2 |
Metal Merchants | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Milliners | 1 | - | 1 | 6 |
Motor Car Accessories | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
M.V.R. and Garages | 36 | 1 | 75 | 3 |
Musical Instruments | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Needle Grinding | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Novelty Goods | 1 | - | - | - |
Office Equipment | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Oil Blenders and Packers | 3 | - | - | 1 |
Paint Makers and Storers | 4 | - | - | - |
Photographers | 2 | - | 6 | 3 |
Picture Frame Makers | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Plastics | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
Printers and Bookbinders | 13 | 1 | 5 | - |
Radio and Television Repairs | 5 | - | 6 | 1 |
Rubber Goods Manufacturers | 1 | - | - | - |
Rag Merchants | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Sausage Makers | 12 | - | 5 | - |
Scientific & Hospital Instruments | 3 | - | 3 | - |
Shoe Makers and Repairers | 9 | - | 10 | - |
Silk Screen Printing and Spraying | 3 | - | - | - |
Starch and Soda Manufacturers | 2 | - | - | - |
Soft Furnishings and Upholstery | 13 | 3 | 18 | 11 |
Stone Masons | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Sweet Making and Packing | - | 1 | - | - |
Spray Painting | 1 | - | - | - |
Tailoring | 7 | 1 | 15 | 12 |
Undertakers | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Wax Workers | 1 | - | - | - |
Weaving | - | - | 1 | - |
Woodworkers (joiners, etc.) | 12 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
Wheelwrights | 1 | - | - | - |
Miscellaneous Factories | 10 | 1 | 9 | 8 |
TOTALS | 271 | 36 | 287 | 97 |