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workshop supervision.
Three cases of scarlet fever (on one boat), and three of diphtheria were reported during
the year, and the patients removed to hospital. Information was received of a case of
measles, but by the time the information was received the boat had started on a trip up
the Canal. The information was telephoned to other authorities on the route which the boat
was taking.
WORKSHOP SUPERVISION.
This part of the report is compiled in pursuance of Section 132 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, which requires a medical officer of health to "report specifically"
on the administration of the Act within his district. The information here given is in the
form prescribed by Memorandum of the Home Office, that Office also requiring a special
table, Table IX., Appendix A.
Registration.—At the close of 1909 there were 1,688 workshop premises on the Register
of the Department. Last year 338 premises were removed from the Register and 158 added
to it, leaving 1,508 effective entries at the close of the year—a nett decrease of 180. The
premises then on the register included 129 factories, 33 of them being laundries, 975 workshops
29 domestic workshops, 60 workplaces and 324 premises in the occupation of " single
workers," 220 of whom were on the Register of Outworkers. An analysis of the occupations
carried on at the premises (of all descriptions) with the latest known numbers of persons
working therein, will be found in Table 43, the numbers of outworkers being shown by
the figures in parentheses.
Notices relating to 56 new workshops were received from the Home Office during the
year, 34 of which had been previously inspected by the Staff of the Department.
Home Work.—Employers of outworkers (home workers) forwarded 83 lists in February
of last year and 71 in August, or a total of 154 lists, as compared with 177 in 1909 and 150 in
1908. The addresses included in those lists numbered 676, of which 431 were forwarded
to other districts, where the homeworkers resided, in accordance with the Act. From other
districts 281 addresses (in 44 lists) of homeworkers residing in the Borough were received,
the number received in 1909 having been 309 in 57 lists. The numbers of lists received
from other districts last year are shown below.
Kensington ... 7 (7) City of London ... 4 (7) Chelsea ... ... 2 (3)
Hampstead ... 4 (10) Bethnal Green ... 1 (0) Lambeth ... ... 3 (3)
Westminster ... 5 (6) Willesden ... ... 4 (3) London County
Finsbury ... ... 4 (6) Marylebone ... 4 (3) Council 4 (1)
Holborn ... ... 1 (1)
Note. —Figures in parentheses are the numbers for 1909.
In 1909, but not in 1910, lists were received from
Hammersmith ... 3 St. Pancras ... 2
Chiswick ... ... 1 Islington ... 1
At the close of last year the Register contained 385 effective entries or 51 less than at
the end of the previous year. The 385 entries comprised 120 workshops, and 265 single
workers, the corresponding numbers for 1909 being 136 and 306 respectively.
Inspections.—The inspections of all descriptions numbered 2,951 last year (2,280 in 1909),
306 being first inspections (270 in 1909). Seventy-three (73) workrooms were measured, or
22 fewer than in the previous year. The numbers of nuisances discovered and dealt with in
the course of inspection are given in Table 44. Twenty (20) notices of all kinds were served
during the year, as against three (3) in 1909.