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Paddington 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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52 workshop supervision.
TABLE 32.
Factories, Workshops, and Work-places.
1906.
| No. of Premises. | No. of. Rooms. | Employees. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women. | Young Persons. | Men. | Totals. | |||||||||
| Boot-making | 11 | (49) | 111 | (49) | 193 | (54) | 4 | (1) | 7 | (4) | 204 | (59) |
| Corset-making | 9 | (1) | 11 | 22 | 2 | — | 24 | (1) | ||||
| Dressmaking | 449 | (69) | 643 | (89) | 1,893 | (191) | 271 | (38) | 12 | (2) | 2,176 | (231) |
| Mantle-making | 13 | (8) | 18 | 48 | (21) | —— | —_ | 48 | (21) | |||
| 46 | (4) | 80 | (4) | 293 | (6) | 26 | - | 319 | (6) | |||
| Millinery and Dressmaking | 18 | 55 | 378 | 32 | 8 | 418 | ||||||
| Outfitting and Plain Needlework | 30 | (17) | 33 | (17) | 80 | (18) | 1 | (1) | 1 | 82 | (19) | |
| Tailoring | 181 | [130) | 212 | (137) | 179 | (102) | 8 | (3) | 170 | (127) | 357 | (232) |
| " Ladies' | 19 | (17) | 32 | (1) | 108 | 13 | 21 | (1) | 142 | (1) | ||
| Various | 16 | (4) | 17 | (4) | 16 | (1) | — | 16 | (1) | 32 | ||
| Embroidery and Art Needlework | 8 | (3) | 10 | (3) | 35 | (6) | 3 | 7 | (1) | 45 | (7) | |
| Other | 3 | (1) | 3 | (1) | 7 | (1) | 2 | - | 9 | (1) | ||
| Dyers and Cleaners Receiving Offices | 16 | 16 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 37 | ||||||
| Laundries | 123 | (9) | 390 | (16) | 1,108 | (26) | 22 | (1) | 141 | (3) | 1,271 | (30) |
| ,, —Receiving Offices | 35 | 35 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 46 | ||||||
| Mangling | 23 | (1) | 23 | (1) | 23 | (1) | — | — | 23 | (1) | ||
| 6 | (2) | 6 | (2) | 9 | (2) | 3 | 1 | 13 | (2) | |||
| Blind-making | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 32 | ||||||
| Bookbinding and Printing | 32 | 48 | 62 | 27 | 209 | 298 | ||||||
| Carpentrv and Joinerv | 12 | 19 | — | — | 87 | 87 | ||||||
| Chaff-cutting | 15 | 19 | — | — | 50 | 50 | ||||||
| Coach Building | 49 | 82 | _ | 1 | 351 | 352 | ||||||
| Cycle and Motor Works | 23 | 35 | - | 10 | 100 | 110 | ||||||
| Jewellery and Clock-making | 8 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 47 | ||||||
| Metal-working | 33 | 37 | — | — | 140 | 140 | ||||||
| Saddlery | 8 | 10 | - | - | 24 | 24 | ||||||
| Sign and Ticket Writing | 9 | 9 | - | 8 | 25 | 33 | ||||||
| Trunk-making | 8 | 11 | 32 | 32 | ||||||||
| Umbrella-making | 7 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 29 | ||||||
| Upholstery | 47 | (16) | 75 | (19) | 88 | (20) | 14 | 92 | 189 | (20) | ||
| Various | 95 | 137 | 193 | 135 | 768 | 1,096 | ||||||
| 1,458 | (315) | 2,204 | (355) | 4,828 | (450) | 613 | (44) | 2,324 | (139) | 7,765 | (633) | |
The figures in parentheses refer to outworkers.
See also Table VII., Pt. 3, Appendix.
The Home Office forwarded notices of 50 new workshops opened during the past year,
most of them being, however, already on the Registers of the Department.
Home Work.—The list of "outworkers" received from local firms numbered 22 in
Februarv and 54 in August, making a total of 76 for the year, containing 389 addresses. Of
these addresses. 262 were, in accordance with the Act, forwarded to other local authorities,