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Lambeth 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]

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92
Offensive Trades.
There are four offensive trades registered, e.g., fat melting
(15, Upper Marsh), soap boiling (15, Upper Marsh) and tripe boiling
(103, Lambeth Walk and 9, Old Paradise Street). The licence for
fat melting at Albert Mews (rear of 188, Clapham Road) lapsed
through disuse in 1924.
Summary of Work carried out by the Female Sanitary
Inspectors during 1927.
Workshops* visited and inspected—
(a) Dressmakers 62
(b) Milliners 9
(c) Laundries 36
(d) Tailors 29
(e) Upholsterers 4
(f) Dyers 2
(g) Blouses 6
(h) Ties 4
(i) Bottling 2
(j) Children's Clothing 3
(k) Florists 6
(1) Boxes and Bags 2
(m) Furriers 3
(n) Lamp Shades 3
(o) Metal, etc. Polishes 2
(p) Printers 2
(q) Underclothing 8
(r) Valet service 7
(s) Waste Paper 1
(t) Toilet Requisites 4
(u) Others {e.g.), bag-making, trunks, foods, tobacco,
&c. 73
Workshops*: workrooms therein measured 59
Workshops*: newly discovered and registered 26
f Premises visited, but not inspected, owing to the persons
or patients concerned being out, or, if employees, being
no longer employed 1,642
*Workshops include Work-places.
†Workshops (72), Tuberculosis cases (659), Private Houses (120),
Out-workers (293), Restaurants (287), Tonsils and Adenoids cases (211).