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Paddington 1907
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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WORKSHOP SUPERVISION
TABLE 35.
Factories, Workshops, and Work-places.
1907.
| No. of Premises. | No. of Rooms. | Employees. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women. | Young Persons. | Men. | Totals. | |||
| Clothing— | ||||||
| Boot-making | 110 (46) | 111 (46) | 5 (3) | 5 (2) | 197 (52) | 207 (57) |
| Corset-making | 9 (1) | 13 (1) | 24 (1) | 3 | - | 27 (1) |
| Dressmaking | 438 (95) | 657 (77) | 1,793 (179) | 377 (26) | 8 (2) | 2,178 (207) |
| Mantle-making | 10 (5) | 15 (8) | 32 (7) | 1 | - | 33 (7) |
| Millinery | 44 (4) | 68 (4) | 203 (5) | 39 (1) | 7 | 249 (6) |
| Millinery and Dressmaking | 21 | 27 | 268 | 49 | - | 317 |
| Outfitting and Plain Needlework | 23 (15) | 29 (16) | 66 (21) | 1 (1) | - | 67 (22) |
| Tailoring | 173 (122) | 190 (135) | 135 (103) | 17 (15) | 322 (156) | 474 (274) |
| „ Ladies | 20 (1) | 42 (1) | 40 | 14 | 98 (1) | 152 (1) |
| Various | 20 (6) | 26 (6) | 51 (6) | 6 | 10 | 67 (6) |
| Fancy Work— | ||||||
| Embroidery and Art Needlework | 6 (1) | 7 (2) | 10 (3) | - | 1 | 11 (3) |
| Cleansing— | ||||||
| Dyers and Cleaners Receiving Offices | 17 | 19 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 26 |
| Laundries | 118 (6) | 403 (9) | 1,303 (8) | 39 | 138 | 1,480 (8) |
| „ —Receiving Offices | 37 | 38 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 46 |
| Mangling | 22 | 22 | 22 | - | - | 22 |
| Various | 6 | 6 | 6 | - | 2 | 8 |
| Other Businesses— Blind-making | 6 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 35 |
| Bookbinding and Printing | 33 | 60 | 47 | 40 (2) | 244 | 331 (2) |
| Carpentry and Joinery | 16 | 17 | - | 2 | 107 | 109 |
| Chaff-cutting | 17 | 28 | - | - | 57 | 57 |
| Coach Building | 44 | 74 | - | 318 | 318 | |
| Cycle and Motor Works | 22 | 34 | - | 8 | 104 | 112 |
| Jewellery and Clock-making | 8 | 12 | - I | - | 22 | i 22 |
| Metal-working | 43 | 58 | - | - | 220 | 220 |
| Saddlery | 8 | 10 | - | - | 24 | 24 |
| Sign and Ticket Writing | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 19 | £8 |
| Trunk-making | 7 | 10 | - | | - | 29 | 29 |
| Umbrella-making | 8 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 32 |
| Upholstery | 47 (21) | 62 (25) | 110 (28) | 22 (4) | 156 (1) | 288 (32) |
| Various | 96 (2) | 135 (2) | 318 (2) | 84 | 669 | 1,071 (2) |
| 1,436 (325) | 2,197 (332) | 4,519 (366) | 725 (51) | 2,796 (212) | 8,040 (629) | |
Women were employed in 928 workshops, including 181 where men and women were employed.
The total number of women therein was 4,780, including 633 "young persons.
Women were employed at 172 outworkers premises, including 42 where men and women were employed.
The total number of women employed therein was 409, including 43 "young persons."
The Home Office forwarded to the Department 46 notices of the opening of new workshops,,
but 26 of the premises thus reported were already on the Registers of the Department.
Home Work.—In February of last vear 43 lists of outworkers were received from employers
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in the Borough, and in August, 58, making a total of 101 returns for the year, as compared
with 76 in 1906. The addresses of outworkers included in the returns, numbered 122, of