London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Leyton 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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One hundred and sixty-eight workshops remain on the Register at the end of the year and are grouped as follows:—
| Accumulator charging and radio repairs | 5 |
| Bakehouses | 18 |
| Bedding manufacturers | 1 |
| Blacksmiths | 3 |
| Boot and shoe makers and repairers | 16 |
| Builders' merchants | 1 |
| Cabinet makers | 5 |
| Cardboard-box manufacturers | 1 |
| Confectionery manufacturers | 4 |
| Corset makers | 1 |
| Cycle repairers | 1 |
| Dressmakers | 18 |
| Dyers, cleaners and pressers | 5 |
| Enameller and plater | 1 |
| Fish packers | 1 |
| Laundries | 2 |
| Leather goods manufacturers | 2 |
| Milliners | 5 |
| Motor repairers | 7 |
| Organ builders | 1 |
| Printers | 1 |
| Paper articles and lamp shades manufacturer | 1 |
| Piano manufacturers | 1 |
| Rag sorters | 2 |
| Range repairers | 1 |
| Scale makers | 1 |
| Tailors | 21 |
| Tie makers | 8 |
| Upholsterers | 5 |
| Wire workers | 1 |
| Wood choppers | 4 |
| Miscellaneous | 24 |
| 168 |
Homework.
Two hundred visits were made to premises occupied by outworkers.
Five hundred and eight outworkers now remain on the
Register.