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List of Industries in the Borough of Hackney.
The chief staple industries are the manufacture of boots,
shoes, cabinets and pianos, but there are also extensive productions
of the following:—
Tailored clothes for males and females; dresses, shirts,
ties, clothing and underclothing generally, millinery, hats,
etc., upholstery and furniture generally; lead pencils,
brushes, boxes, artificial flowers, toys, leather goods,
gas mantles, dolls, rubber goods, scents, drugs, dyes, paints
and varnishes, artists' colours, joinery, foundry work (iron),
electric signals, electrical instruments, glass, surgical instruments,
silk-weaving and embroidery, chemicals; also
there are several furriers, and a number of laundries.
Workshops.—The number of workshops registered in Hackney
at the end of 1923, was 874, a decrease of 7 on the number
registered at the end of 1922. Of this total, 650 were workshops
in which females were employed. Of these latter, 427 were
workshops in which articles of wearing apparel were manufactured,
altered or prepared for sale, etc., 194 in which other articles
were manufactured, etc., and 29 were domestic workshops.
Amongst the workshops in which wearing apparel is manufactured,
there were 255 in which females alone and 172 in which
both males and females were employed.
In workshops of other occupations, there were 103 in which
females alone, and 91 in which both males and females were
employed.
Of the domestic workshops, females alone were employed in
16, and both males and females in 13.