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Workshops.
At the end of 1934, there were 399 workshops on the Register,
including 96 domestic workshops. During the year, 424 inspections
were made and 45 notices served.
The chief occupations for males were bootmakers, tailors,
upholsterers and cabinet makers, builders and carpenters; and for
females, dressmakers, outfitters and costumiers, wigmakers and
tailors.
Outworkers.
Certain specified classes of work done at the homes of workers
are controlled by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. There are
108 such outworkers in Hampstead known to the Public Health
Department. Of these, 5 are factories, 20 are workshops, 3 are
workplaces and 80 are single workers. Persons sending out home
work are required to keep lists of their home workers and to send
copies of the lists to the Borough Council on or before the 1st February
and the 1st August in each year.
In February, 50 lists were received, and 51 lists in August.
These lists included the names of 146 and 139 outworkers respectively.
In many instances, of course, the same outworker's name was reported
by different firms twice in the year. Of the actual outworkers thus
notified, amounting to 140, 24 belonged to Hampstead and 116
elsewhere. Particulars of the latter were sent to the Local Authorities
concerned, while information concerning 84 outworkers resident
in Hampstead was received from other Authorities.
In no instance during 1934 was outwork found to be carried on
in unwholesome premises.