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Islington 1908
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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1908
INSPECTOR WEST'S REPORT.
Town Hall,
Upper Street, Islington, N.
31th March, 1909.
To the medical officer of health.
The visits to the various trades carried on in them were as follows:—228 factories, 1,008 workshops, 248 workplaces, 572 bakehouses, 126 outworkers' premises, and 2,275 miscellaneous.
| Artificial florists | 3 | Fancy brooch maker | 1 |
| Automatic machine maker, etc. | 1 | Feather dressers | 2 |
| Beer bottlers | 1 | File cutter | 1 |
| Bakehouses | 255 | Fish cleaner | 1 |
| Builders | 10 | Fish curers | 2 |
| Blacksmiths | 9 | French polisher | 1 |
| Basket makers | 2 | Flooring maker (Patent) | 1 |
| Blind makers | 3 | Fancy goods maker | 2 |
| Brush makers | 5 | Gun makers | 2 |
| Bamboo cabinet makers | 4 | Glazier | 1 |
| Balloon maker | 1 | Glove maker | 1 |
| Baking powder maker | 1 | Gold paint maker | 1 |
| Boot polish makers | 2 | Gilder (card edge) | 1 |
| Book maker | 1 | Glass workers | 2 |
| Brace maker | 1 | Hat shapes makers | 3 |
| Confectioners | 8 | Hair work | 1 |
| Cycle makers | 12 | Japanners | 1 |
| Cabinet makers | 32 | Leather goods | 8 |
| Condiment makers | 1 | Ladder maker | 1 |
| Coppersmiths | 1 | Lath renders | 2 |
| Camera bellows maker | 1 | Limelight works | 1 |
| Cardboard box makers | 6 | Lamp makers | 2 |
| Cap makers | 2 | Laundries | 2 |
| Clay pipe maker | 1 | Marquetry workers | 3 |
| Cork cutter | 1 | Marking ink | 1 |
| Cattle food drugs maker | 1 | Mineral water sundries | 1 |
| Coopers | 3 | Marble masons | 3 |
| Cloth shrinkers | 1 | Metal workers | 2 |
| Corset maker | 1 | Brass instrument maker | 1 |
| Carpenters | 2 | Motor works | 11 |
| Coach painters | 2 | Mount maker | 1 |
| Dairy can maker | 1 | Mop maker | 1 |
| Dye maker | 1 | Musical string makers | 2 |
| Engineers | 12 | Mantle makers | 3 |
| Exhibition stall maker | 1 | Naturalist | 1 |
| Embroidery maker | 1 | Overmantels | 1 |
| Farriers | 30 | Optician | 1 |
| Furriers | 47 | Organ builders | 2 |