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236 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Of the 96 factories where women are employed, 71 are laundries
and 25 other factories, while of the total workshops, viz.:—500,
286 are dressmakers and milliners, 144 laundries and 70 other
workshops, an increase of seven other workshops, compared with
1910, but a decrease of 16 dressmakers' and milliners' premises,
and nine laundries.
The total number of domestic workshops on the Register was
60 (eight in Clapham, seven in Putney, 24 in Streatham, four in
Tooting, and 17 in Wandsworth), compared with 58 in 1910.
The total number of workplaces on the register is 314, an
increase of 28 compared with 1910, of which 89 are laundries, and
225 miscellaneous premises, chiefly dressmakers and milliners.