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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
West Ham 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Table V.
Workshops on the register . 1937.
| Amusement arcade | 1 | Laundry receiving office | 17 |
| Artificial manures | 1 | Leatherwork | 4 |
| Asbestos mats | 1 | Marine store dealer | 3 |
| Basket makers | 2 | Medicine packing | 1 |
| Battery-charging | 4 | Millinery | 10 |
| Billiards tables | 1 | Monumental mason | |
| Boot repairs | 1 | Motor repairs | 1 |
| Bone boiling | 1 | Metal refining | 1 |
| Bread and pastry | 8 | Oil-blending | 8 |
| Brush makers | 1 | Pickle making | 1 |
| Builder's yard, contractors | 13 | Printers | 1 |
| Cat and dog skinning | 1 | Packing (provisions) | 1 |
| Clothes pressing and renovating | 10 | Photographers | 4 |
| Perfume | 1 | ||
| Confectionery | 1 | Posters and showcards | 3 |
| Coopers | 4 | Rag-sorting, scrap-metal, etc. | 10 |
| Corset making | 2 | ||
| Cycle repairs | 6 | Sacks and bags | 1 |
| Cork making | 1 | Safety lamps | 1 |
| Disinfectants | 1 | Sewing machine repairs | 2 |
| Dress-making | 18 | Sheet metal working | 3 |
| Dressing gowns | 1 | Shirt making | 1 |
| Enamellers | 1 | Shop blinds and shutters | 1 |
| Flavouring essences | 1 | Stables | 1 |
| Florists | 1 | Soap makers | 1 |
| Fruiterers (dealer) | 1 | Tailors | 24 |
| Galvanisers | 2 | Tile slabbing | 1 |
| Glaziers | 1 | Timber merchant | 2 |
| Games manufacturers | 1 | Waterprofing compounds | 1 |
| General engineers | 10 | Wire-working | 1 |
| Gut-scraping | 1 | Wood preservatives | 1 |
| Harness makers | 1 | Funeral furnishers | 8 |
| Jewellery repairs | 1 | Farrier | 7 |
| Joinery | 18 |