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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hornsey 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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Factory and Workshop Acts.—'The total number of Factories,
Workshops and Work-places on the register is 412. At nine of
these Factories more than 40 persons are employed.
The businesses carried on at the respective premises are as follows:—
| Bakehouses | 22 |
| Dressmakers and milliners | 61 |
| Bootmakers and boot repairers | 51 |
| Tailors | 26 |
| Laundries | 11 |
| Motor and cycle engineers | 43 |
| Restaurant kitchens and manufacture of cooked meats | 32 |
| Printing | 14 |
| Upholstery | 12 |
| Builders | 11 |
| Pianos | 11 |
| Cleaning and Dyeing | 10 |
| Scientific Instruments | 8 |
| Plumbers | 6 |
| Watch and clock making | 5 |
| Picture framing | 5 |
| Furriers | 4 |
| Miscellaneous | 80 |
| 412 |
Offensive Trades.—In February Last the Council made an
Order, confirmed by the Minister of Health, declaring the trades
of Rag and Bone Dealer and Fish Frier to be Offensive Trades in
the Borough.
HOUSING.
The following table continues the comparison, instituted for
the first time in the report for 1926, between two small adjoining
areas. One comprises the streets east of Nightingale Lane, and
the other Nightingale Lane and the streets immediately to the
west:—