Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1913]
234
Miss DAVIES' REPORT.
Town Hall,
Upper Street,, N.
April 241h, 1914.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
I beg to submit to you the following report of my work during the year 1913. The following inspections and visits have been made during that period:—
Inspections of Factories | 235 |
Inspections of Workshops | 1,407 |
Inspections of Workplaces | 10 |
Miscellaneous re-inspections and visits | 2,190 |
Total | 3,842 |
The following is a list of the factories (including steam laundries) on the register:—
Industry. | Number | Number of women employed. |
---|---|---|
Laundry work | 45 | 1,804 |
Printing | 18 | 187 |
Box-making | 14 | 483 |
Book-binding | 10 | 220 |
Confectionery | 10 | 488 |
Blouse making | 7 | 270 |
Dressmaking | 6 | 480 |
Dyeing and cleaning | 5 | 59 |
Toy-making | 3 | 296 |
Chemists sundries making | 4 | 202 |
Electrical engineering | 4 | 137 |
Meat preserving | 4 | 104 |
Packing | 4 | 14 |
Brush making | 3 | 223 |
Furrier | 3 | 46 |
Mantles | 3 | 167 |
Millinery | 3 | 498 |
Bottling | 2 | 71 |
Cigarette making | 2 | 41 |
French polishing | 2 | 26 |
Mattress making | 2 | 17 |
Mineral waters, making | 2 | 33 |
Photo mount making | 2 | 30 |
Apron making | 1 | 36 |
Blind making | 1 | 7 |
Boot upper making | 1 | 13 |
Bottle washing | 1 | 16 |
Button making | 1 | 30 |