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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 1925, was 836, an increase of 84 on the number
registered at the end of 1924. Of this total, 600 were workshops
in which females were employed. Of these latter, 391 were
workshops in which articles of wearing apparel were manufactured,
altered or prepared for sale, etc., 187 in which other
articles were manufactured, etc., and 22 were domestic workshops.
Amongst the workshops in which wearing apparel is manufactured,
there were 223 in which females alone, and 164 in which
both males and females were employed.
In workshops of other occupations, there were 103 in which
females alone, and 88 in which both males and females were
employed.
Of the domestic workshops, females alone were employed in
16, and both males and females in 9.
During the year notices and complaints were received from
H.M. Inspectors of Factories, as follows:—
Complaints—Factories 12
Complaints—Workshops 23
Notices—Workshops 103