Factory Registers

Created in accordance with the Factories Act 1937.

The General Register is composite, sometimes including a Registers of Young Persons, the Register of Persons Employed in Painting Buildings, a list of accidents and boiler certificates. Sections completed within these registers are noted at item level.

Where the sections have been completed, information recorded is a follows:

Accidents:
Records date, cause, name, age, employment, occupation at time of accident, nature of injury and time off work.

Limewashing:
Records date of treatment, area and treatment.

Painting:
Register records employee number, name, address, employment dates.

Young persons:
record the employee number, name, address, employment dates [often date of leaving not completed], date of birth, signature of examining surgeon and date of signature.

1938-1949

11 items

Copyright assigned to the Wellcome Trust

Deaccessioned: General Register for Factories drug grinding - no entries, nd
General Register for Building Operations - no entries, July 1938
7 blank Registers of Young Persons