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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
Hampstead 1919
Report for the year 1919 of the Medical Officer of Health
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3.—Home-Work, 66 lists of outworkers were received from employers. These contained 180 entries. There are 95 outworkers' premises in Hampstead, 6 being Factories, 26 Workshops, 21 Domestic Workshops and 42 single workers.
| NATURE OF WORK. | Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | |||||||
| Sending Twice in the year. | Sending Once in the year. | ||||||
| Outworkers† | Outworkers. | ||||||
| Lists | Contractors. | Workmen. | Lists. | Con-tractors. | Workmen. | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Wearing Apparel— | |||||||
| (1) making, &c. | 32 | 23 | 61 | 7 | 7 | 9 | |
| (2) cleaning and washing | 10 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 4 | — | |
| Household linen | 4 | 2 | 11 | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Lace, lace curtains and nets | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| Curtains and furniture hangings | 4 | 3 | 7 | — | — | — | |
| Furniture and upholstery | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Electroplate | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | |
| Brass and brass articles | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | |
| Locks, latches and keys | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| Umbrellas, &c. | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | |
| Paper, &c., boxes, paper bags | 2 | — | 15 | — | — | — | |
| Total | 56 | 40 | 116 | 10 | 13 | 11 | |
Notices served on occupiers as to keeping or sending lists of Outworkers, Nil; Prosecutions
in relation to Outworkers' Lists, Nil.
Outwork in unwholesome premises, Sec. 103, Nil; Outwork in infected premises, Sees. 109110,
Nil.
* In the case of those occupiers who gave out work of more than one of the classes specified
in Column 1, and subdivided their lists in such a way as to show the number of workers in each
class of work, the list has been included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be)
against the principal class only, but the outworkers have been assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or
6 and 7) into their respective classes.
† The figures in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those
employers who comply strictly with the statutory duty of sending two lists each year, and of
the entries of names of outworkers in those lists.
4.—Registered Workshops.
| Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year. (1) | Number. (2) |
|---|---|
| Bakehouses | 25 |
| Bootmakers | 29 |
| Dressmakers and ladies' tailors | 66 |
| Tailors | 42 |
| Other | 190 |
| Total number of workshops on Register | 352 |