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 Finsbury Borough]
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THE SHOPS ACT, 1934.
At the end of the year there were some 1,341 premises within the Borough to which the Act applies, distributed as follows:—
Automatic machine dealers | 1 | Leather goods dealers | 12 |
Bakers | 41 | Libraries | 5 |
Billiard table dealers | 3 | Metal merchants | 4 |
Booksellers | 5 | Milliners | 14 |
Boot and shoe dealers | 30 | Miscellaneous and fancy goods | 6 |
Boot repairers | 12 | ||
Builders' sundriesmen | 6 | Musical instrument dealers | 2 |
Butchers | 54 | Music sellers | 2 |
Butchers' outfitters | 3 | Naturalists | 2 |
Carpet and linoleum dealers | 4 | Newsagents | 25 |
Cats' meat dealers | 4 | Oil and colour dealers | 24 |
"Chain" stores | 4 | Opticians and clock makers | 16 |
Chemists, druggists and herbalists | 28 | Pawnbrokers | 5 |
Perfumers | 1 | ||
China and glassware dealers | 3 | Piano dealers | 3 |
Cleaners and laundry receiv-ing offices | 11 | Post Offices | 3 |
Printers | 4 | ||
Cooked meat shops | 7 | Provision dealers | 38 |
Costumiers | 16 | Public-houses | 92 |
Cycles, etc. | 9 | Radio, gramophone and electrical goods | 28 |
Dairies and milkshops | 111 | ||
Decorators | 2 | Restaurants | 223 |
Dolls' hospital | 1 | Second-hand dealers | 5 |
Drapers | 27 | Sewing machine dealers | 2 |
Electroplater | 1 | Snack bars | 19 |
Fish sellers | 7 | Stationers | 11 |
Florists | 6 | Surgical appliances | 1 |
Fried fish sellers | 18 | Sweetshops | 42 |
Furniture dealers | 19 | Sweetshops and tobacconists | 30 |
General merchants | 2 | Tailors | 19 |
Greengrocers and fruiterers | 23 | Theatrical costumiers | 1 |
Grocers | 44 | Tin and copperware dealers | 1 |
Hairdressers | 58 | Tobacconists | 48 |
Hairdressers' sundriesmen | 2 | Tool merchants | 2 |
Hatters | 4 | Toy dealers | 5 |
Hosiers | 12 | Typewriters and cash registers | 2 |
Ironmongers | 14 | ||
Italian produce dealers | 2 | Umbrella dealers | 2 |
Jewellers | 7 | Undertakers | 1 |
Ladies' outfitters | 2 | Wearing apparel | 26 |
Lamp manufacturers | 1 | Wines and spirits | 11 |