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Royal Carriage Department (13), including—
Tinman's Shop 1
Erecting Shops 2
Slide Shop 1
Forge 1
Saw Mills 1
Coopers' Shop 1
Royal Gun Factory (5), including—
Engine Repair Shop 1
Torpedo Factory 1
Naval Ordnance Department 1
Army Ordnance Department 2
Central Office 1
Seventeen outside the Arsenal were labourers (6 being Dock
labourers); 3 were soldiers, 2 coal porters, 2 carmen, 2
bandsmen, E.A., 2 clerks, 2 potmen, 2 schoolboys; the remainder
included a mountebank, a cat's meat man, a stoker, a laundryman,
a stableman, a salesman, a contractor's foreman, an
errand boy, a hairdresser, a pensioner, a tailor, a cashier, and
a racquet ball maker.
The 53 females included 3 servants, 2 dressmakers, 2
machinists, a housemaid, a barmaid and a cook.
92. The incidence in the Royal Arsenal per 1,000 employees
was 4.1 in the Eoyal laboratory, 4.6 in the Carriage Department,
2.1 in the Gun factory, and 1.3 in the Army and Naval
Ordnance Departments. In the laboratory the incidence was
more especially on those employed in the danger buildings,
being there 8.1 per 1,000 employees.