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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The number of workshops registered in Hackney at the end
of 1930 was 647, a decrease of 94 on the number registered at the
end of 1929. Of this total, 426 were workshops in which females
were employed.
The factories in the Borough number 436, and are inspected
and regulated by H.M. Inspectors under the Home Office. The
duty of ensuring the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary
conveniences in factories, however, rests upon the Sanitary
Inspectors of the Borough Council.
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.