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WORKSHOPS, WORK-PLACES, AND HOMES
OF OUTWORKERS.
The Workshops, Work-places, and Out-Workers' Homes are'
kept under constant supervision by the Male and Female Sanitary
Inspectors, and precautions are taken to ensure that the work done
in these places is conducted under the best possible conditions.
CHIEF LOCAL INDUSTRIES.
The main industries in Tottenham are building, cabinet making,
pencil making, dress, blouse, and mantle making, piano making, the
manufacture of sweets, stationery, india rubber, emery cloth, brushes,
cyclostyle materials, lamps, and boots and shoes, brewing and mineral
water manufacturing, bedstead making and motor manufacturing.
LAUNDRIES.
There are 48 Laundries in Tottenham. They have all been
periodically inspected, and notices were served, when necessary, with
regard to any defects found therein.
BAKEHOUSES.
There are 69 Bakehouses in the district, all of which have been
subjected to frequent inspection.
Electric machinery has been installed in one bakehouse, and
certain alterations (improved lighting and ventilation, etc.) have been
carried out in others.
FOOD INSPECTIONS.
970 inspections have been made by the Ward Inspectors and the
Medical Officer of Health ; the following list gives the distribution
of the visits amongst the different classes of food purveyors
Butchers' Shops 435
Fishmongers' Shops 268
Fruitercs' and Greengrocers' Shops 267
The inspections are carried out at frequent but irregular intervals
and so that the shopkeepers may not be in a position to make preparations
for the Inspectors' visits, and in such a manner as to excite as
little attention as possible from customers or passers by.