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Finsbury 1937

[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 dealers1Leather goods dealers12
Bakers41Libraries5
Billiard table dealers3Metal merchants4
Booksellers5Milliners14
Boot and shoe dealers30Miscellaneous and fancy goods6
Boot repairers12
Builders' sundriesmen6Musical instrument dealers2
Butchers54Music sellers2
Butchers' outfitters3Naturalists2
Carpet and linoleum dealers4Newsagents25
Cats' meat dealers4Oil and colour dealers24
"Chain" stores4Opticians and clock makers16
Chemists, druggists and herbalists28Pawnbrokers5
Perfumers1
China and glassware dealers3Piano dealers3
Cleaners and laundry receiv-ing offices11Post Offices3
Printers4
Cooked meat shops7Provision dealers38
Costumiers16Public-houses92
Cycles, etc.9Radio, gramophone and electrical goods28
Dairies and milkshops111
Decorators2Restaurants223
Dolls' hospital1Second-hand dealers5
Drapers27Sewing machine dealers2
Electroplater1Snack bars19
Fish sellers7Stationers11
Florists6Surgical appliances1
Fried fish sellers18Sweetshops42
Furniture dealers19Sweetshops and tobacconists30
General merchants2Tailors19
Greengrocers and fruiterers23Theatrical costumiers1
Grocers44Tin and copperware dealers1
Hairdressers58Tobacconists48
Hairdressers' sundriesmen2Tool merchants2
Hatters4Toy dealers5
Hosiers12Typewriters and cash registers2
Ironmongers14
Italian produce dealers2Umbrella dealers2
Jewellers7Undertakers1
Ladies' outfitters2Wearing apparel26
Lamp manufacturers1Wines and spirits11