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Army Ordnance Department 4
Building Works Department 4
Dockyard 7
19 outside the Arsenal were labourers (2 being Dock
labourers), 4 were potmen, 5 soldiers, 3 clerks, 3 carters, 3
schoolboys, 2 errand boys, 2 bakers, 2 coal porters; the
remainder included a barber, a rag and bone picker, a porter,
a machinist, a ship's steward, a grocer, a coal heaver, a tram
driver, a shop assistant, a house decorator, a van boy, a fishmonger,
a racquet maker, a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, a
furniture hand, a wood chopper, a plumber, and a tailor,
making a total of 62 employed outside the Arsenal.
The 50 females included 4 laundry maids, 3 charwomen, 2
teachers, 3 scholars, 2 needlowomen, a machinist, a servant, a
monthly nurse, a waitress, a fruit picker, a cook, and a dressmaker.
101. In my last Annual Report I considered the incidence
of phthisis in the Royal Arsenal, and gave certain incidence
rates, expressing the opinion that the figures did not indicate
special incidence on any one or more workshops, and that
these were not frequent sources of infection. I have no means
of giving incidence rates this year, but the figures, as far as
they go, point to the same conclusion as last year. In 1903,
the notified phthisis cases among Arsenal employees somewhat
exceeded the cases among those employed outside the Arsenal:
in 1904, the reverse was the case. The total number of
Arsenal employees far exceeds the total males in other occupations
living in the Borough, so evidently the Arsenal workshops
as a whole cannot be looked on as an important source of
phthisis.
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