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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.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
During the year, 268 inspections were made of factories and
2,334 of workshops by the officers of the Public Health Department.

Workshops.—The number of workshops registered in Hackney
at the end of 1926, was 873, an increase of 37 on the number;
registered at the end of ] 925. Of this total, 624 were workshops
in which females were employed. Of these latter, 410 were
workshops in which articles of wearing apparel were manufactured,
altered or prepared for sale, etc., 192 in which other
articles were manufactured, etc., and 22 were domestic workshops.