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Paddington 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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workshop supervision. 59 TABLE 33. Factories, Workshops, and Work-pi.aces.
| No. of Premises. | No. of Rooms. | Employees. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women. | Young Persons. | Men. | Total. | |||
| 85 | 126 | |||||
| (32) | (32) | (32) | ||||
| Boot-making | ||||||
| Clothingr,repairs | — | — | 6 | |||
| Corset making | 2 | — | 23 (1) | |||
| Dressmaking | 128(32) | 9 | 2,251(207) | |||
| fur-sewing and Furriers | 4 | 6 | 9 | |||
| Mantle making | 11 (5) | 14 (5) | 37 | |||
| Millinery | 44 (6) | 63 (6) | 288 | |||
| Millinery and Dressmaking | 19 | 52 | 292 | |||
| Out fitting and plain Nedle work | 37 (23) | 8438 (23) | 93 | |||
| Tailoring | 80 78 | |||||
| „ Ladies' | 19 44 | 31 44 | 112 | |||
| Various | 10 (4) | 10 (4) | 11 | |||
| Embroidery and Art Needlework | 6 (3) | 8 (3) | 18 | |||
| Other | 7 (3) | 7 (3) | 16 | |||
| Dyers and Cleaners' Receiving Offices | 16 | 16 | 22 | |||
| Laundries | 143 (14) | 433 (18) | 1,140 | |||
| „ —Receiving Offices | 29 | 29 | 30 | |||
| Mangling | 25 (1) | 25 (1) | 26 | |||
| Various | 5 (2) | 5 (2) | 14 | |||
| Bookbinding | 24 | 33 | 85 | |||
| Coach Building | 30 | 55 | — | |||
| Cycle and Motor Making | 17 | 22 | — | |||
| Jewellery and Clock-making | 7 | 11 | 16 | |||
| Metal-working | 12 | 13 | — | |||
| Saddlery | 8 | 10 | — | |||
| Sign and Ticket Writing | 6 | 6 | — | |||
| Trunk-making | 6 | 9 | _ | |||
| Umbrella-making | 5 | 6 | 13 | |||
| Upholstery | 36 (17) | 60 (23) | 114 | |||
| Various | 56 | 84 | 171 | |||
| *1,260(249) | †1,907 (285) | 4,520 | ||||
* Including 190 Single Workers
†„ 220 rooms in
The figures in parentheses refer to outwo
At the close of the year the Department's Registe
occupied by outworkers, comprising—
Factory, 1 ; workshops, 95 ; workplaces, 2 ; :
The last alone are really within the definition of
persons working in the 249 premises was 591. (For
on, &c., see Table 33, where the figures are shown in parentheses.)
Inspections.— The inspections and re-inspections made during the year numbered 3,414
(see Table 34) as compared with 2,468 in 1903, and 220 rooms were measured, or 172 less