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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hackney 1904

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1904

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Bermondsey10Hampstead3
Leytonstone11Willesden1
Wood Green11New Soutbgate4
Richmond2Poplar118
Woolwich2Stoke Newington68
Shoreditch218Hornsey4
Leyton38Lambeth17
Wandsworth2Westminster3
Hammersmith2Fulham2
St. Marylebone2Battersea1
St. Albans1Cricklewood2
Ealing1City of London1
Brentford2Waltham Cross1
Paddington1
West Ham441,570
Finsbury8

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In my report for the year 1903, I stated that the Borough
Council had appointed an officer for the sole duty of inspecting
and dealing with any insanitary conditions met with in home work
places. Miss Newton was appointed for this purpose on the 14th
April, and commenced her duties on the 2nd May, 1904. From
this latter date up to the end of the year Miss Newton had
inspected 766 homeworkers' premises. Her instructions are not only
to inspect the workrooms themselves, but also to ascertain the
sufficiency or otherwise of the sanitary conveniences on the premises.
The following table prepared by this officer shows in detail the
nuisances found and the work executed under her supervision up
to the end of the vear:—

Table: OUTWORKERS' PREMISES AND DOMESTIC WORKSHOPS, MAY TO DECEMBER, 1904.

OUTWORKERS' PREMISES AND DOMESTIC WORKSHOPS, MAY TO DECEMBER, 1904.

Outworkers' Premises inspected611
Domestic Workshops ,,157
Male Outworkers found139
Workshops47