London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Kensington 1962
[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 - i.e. North or South Kensington:-
| Factory - Business | North Kensington | South Kensington | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mech. | N-M. | Mech. | N-M. | |
| Bakers and confectioners | 6 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
| Belt & Button Manufacturers | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Builders & Decorators | 6 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
| Building Construction | 5 | - | - | |
| Carton Making & Salvage | 2 | |||
| Coffee Grinding & Roasting | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Cosmetics & Toilet Preparations | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Dental Mechanics | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Disinfectants | - | - | ||
| Display Works & Signwriting | 3 | l | 1 | 1 |
| Doll & Toy Manufacturers | 7 | 4 | 2 | - |
| Dressmaking | 14 | - | 25 | 12 |
| Drug Manufacturers | 1 | - | - | |
| Dyers & Cleaners | 8 | l | 12 | - |
| Electro Platers | 1 | - | - | - |
| Engineering (Elec.) | 8 | 4 | 3 | |
| Engineering (Mech.) | - | 9 | - | |
| Electrical Generating Stations | 2 | 1 | ||
| Film Editing & Slide Making | 1 | - | ||
| Furriers | 2 | 11 | 2 | |
| Gas Works | 1 | - | - | - |
| Glass Cutting & Polishing | 3 | 3 | ||
| Handbags & Shopping Bags | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ice Cube & Cream Manufacture | 1 | - | ||
| Jewellers & Watchmakers | 2 | l | 2 | 2 |
| Lamp Shade Manufacturers | - | l | 1 | - |
| Laundries | 9 | - | 5 | |
| Leather Goods | 2 | - | 1 | 3 |
| Metal Merchants | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Milliners | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Motor Car Accessories | - | 1 | ||
| M.V.R. & Garages | 41 | 1 | 67 | 2 |
| Musical Instruments | - | 2 | 1 | |
| Needle Grinding | 2 | - | ||
| Novelty Goods | 1 | - | ||
| Office Equipment | - | - | 2 | |
| Oil Blenders & Packers | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Paint Makers & Storers | 3 | - | - | - |
| Photographers | 3 | - | 5 | 3 |
| Picture Frame Makers | 1 | 3 | 1 | |
| Plastics | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Printers & Bookbinders | 12 | - | 6 | 1 |
| Radio & Television | 5 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| Rubber Goods Manufacturers | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Rag Merchants | - | 1 | - | |
| Sausage Makers | 12 | - | 5 | - |
| Scientific & Hospital Instruments | 2 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Shoe Makers & Repairers | 7 | - | 11 | - |
| Silk Screen Printing & Spraying | 2 | - | - | |
| Starch & Soda Manufacturers | 3 | 1 | ||
| Soft Furnishings & Upholstery | 10 | 5 | 15 | 6 |
| Stone Masons | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Sweet Making & Packing | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Spray Painting | 1 | - | - | - |
| Tailoring | 8 | 1 | 13 | 13 |
| Tool Making | 6 | 1 | - | |
| Undertakers | 1 | - | l | |
| Wax Workers | 1 | |||
| Weaving | - | - | 1 | |
| Woodworkers (Joiners, etc.) | 7 | l | 11 | 1 |
| Wheelwrights | 1 | - | ||
| Miscellaneous | 12 | 2 | 7 | 7 |
| TOTAL | 263 | 33 | 313 | 82 |