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OUT WORKERS.
The work commenced by the Female Inspector in 1903,
and continued since, connected with the visiting and
inspecting of out-workers' premises and homes (situated
within the Borough of Lambeth), has been further continued
during 1909.
This is a special duty devolving upon the Borough Council
under Sections 107-110 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, under which Orders (known as the Home-work
Orders) have been made by the Home Secretary (vide
Annual Reports, 1903, pp. 118-122 and 1905 pp. 125-126).
The latest Order is 1907 (May 23rd), replacing the Order
of August 15th, 1905, and enlarging the list of special
trades to which Sections 107-110 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, apply, by the addition of the following:
Artificial flowers, nets, other than wire nets; tents; sacks;
covering of racquet or tennis balls; boxes of cardboard,
ship, or similar material; pea-picking; feather sorting; the
carding boxing, or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes,
pins and hair-pins; and baskets.