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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
Holborn 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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It was necessary to serve the following notices for the abatement of sanitary
nuisances in factories, workshops and workplaces.
Intimation Notices Statutory Notices.
Factories 19 3
Workshops 59 7
Workplaces 51 1
129 11
Of the 616 workshops on the register at the end of the year
3l!l employed men only,
62 employed women only, and
233 employed both men and women.
The number of employees is often very small and many of the workshops are in
tenement houses (houses let in lodgings).
| No. of Workshops Employing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men only. | Women only. | Both Sexes. | Total. | |
| Boot makers and repairers | 17 | - | 1 | 18 |
| Builders | 13 | - | - | 13 |
| Cabinetmakers | 5 | - | - | 5 |
| Carpenters | 10 | — | — | 10 |
| Clock and watch makers | 13 | - | 1 | 14 |
| Dressmakers and ladies'tailors | — | 23 | 24 | 47 |
| Diamond mounters | 10 | — | 3 | 13 |
| Engravers | 17 | — | 2 | 19 |
| Glass blowers | 9 | — | 2 | 11 |
| Jewellers | 44 | — | 11 | 55 |
| Lamp shade makers | — | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Leather goods makers | 5 | — | 4 | 9 |
| Metalworkers | 6 | — | 1 | 7 |
| Picture framers | 9 | — | 10 | |
| Tailors | 80 | 4 | 66 | 100 |
Factories.
These visits also afforded an opportunity for extending and revising information
relating to "factories'' in the Borough. Steps are being taken for the gradual
compilation of a register of such places, and at the end of the year 439 factories had
been entered on the register. Workshops are automatically converted, at a very Bmall
cost, into factories by the installation of a small electric motor ; the health condition!
then may no longer be inspected by the Borough Council's staff except as regards
sanitary accommodation.