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WOMEN SANITARY INSPECTORS.
FACTORIES.
The majority of women who work in factories in the City are employed in
the Clothing Trades. Out of a total of 10,236 women workers, 5,500 are
shown by the Factory Register to be employed in some branch of clothing
work. Under this heading are included: Millinery, Blouse-making, Underclothing,
Feather-dressing, &c. The number of workrooms in these trades
on the Register is 399.
In Printing, Bookbinding, and Envelope-making, 3,941 women are
employed, and 662 women work in Tobacco factories. The other trades
represented include Furniture and Upholstery, Tea-packing, Silk-winding,
and two factory Laundries.
In Factories the Sanitary Authorities deal chiefly with sanitary accommodation,
other health questions being within the purview of H.M. Inspectors.
586 visits were paid by your Women Inspectors to factories in which women
are employed. In many instances the sanitary accommodation was found to
be dirty and defective, and a large number of cases of unsuitable or insufficient
accommodation were reported, and where structural alterations were required
were dealt with by the District Inspectors.
WORKSHOPS.
The workshops in which women are employed are nearly all places where
clothing of some kind is made. The total number of these workshops
(including Millinery, Blouses, Tailoring, Feathers, Artificial Flowers, Mantles,
Underclothing, &c.), is 1,264; 764 being workshops in which men and
women are employed, and in 500 women only are employed.
The number of women employed in these trades is 8,041.
Other trades represented are: Umbrellas, Leather goods, Stationery,
Furniture and Upholstery, Florists, Perfumery, Druggists, &c., and two
Laundries.
The total number of women employed in all workshops (including
domestic workshops) is 10,491.