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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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At the end of the year there were 604 workshops on the register.
353 employed men only,
45 employed women only, and
206 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 fewer than 155 different industries are carried on in these workshops, among the principal being the following:-
| No. of Workshops Employing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men only. | Women only. | Both Sexes. | Total. | |
| Boot makers and repairers | 15 | 1 | 16 | |
| Builders | 11 | — | — | 11 |
| Carpenters | 11 | — | — | 11 |
| Clock and watch makers | 16 | — | 1 | 17 |
| Dressmakers and ladies tailors | — | 16 | 21 | 37 |
| Diamond mounters | 9 | — | 2 | 11 |
| Engravers | 15 | — | 2 | 17 |
| Glass blowers | 6 | — | 2 | 8 |
| Jewellers | 31 | 1 | 8 | 40 |
| Leather goods makers | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
| Metal workers | 7 | — | 4 | 11 |
| Tailors | 29 | 3 | 46 | 78 |
Factories.
These visits also afforded an opportunity for extending and revising information
relating to "factories" in the Borough. At the end of the year 469 factories were
on the register. Workshops arc automatically converted, at a very small cost, into
factories by the installation of a small electric motor; the health conditions then may
no longer bo inspected by the Borough Council's staff except as regards sanitary
accommodation.
The 469 factories include 50 different industries. In 237 cases men only were
employed, in 18 women only, and in 214 both sexes.
The more important industries carried on in these factories are:-
| Printing | 117 |
| Engineering | 47 |
| Jewellers' work | 22 |
| Bookbinding | 18 |
| Metal work | 12 |
The following is a summary in tabular form of the work done by the Inspectors
in factories, workshops and workplaces in the year 1933: —