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Outworkers.—The total number of lists received during the year
amounted to 1,090, an increase of 215 compared with the previous year.
This increased figure is due mainly to systematic visits having been paid
by the lady sanitary inspector to firms engaged in certain businesses,
principally the sale of wearing apparel, whose names did not appear on the
list of those employing outworkers.
No legal proceedings had to be taken in respect of failure to send lists,
but reminder notices were sent to 113 firms.
The lists received contained 10,996 names and addresses, of which
6,273 belonged to other districts.
The number of individual outworkers in Westminster is 1,737, of
whom 1,465 are registered as occupying workshops.
The number of premises in which outwork is carried on is 874.
Disinfection.
Disinfection of rooms from which patients suffering from notifiable
infectious disease have been removed is carried out by means of the.
formaldehyde spray. For other non-notifiable infectious conditions
disinfection is carried out on request, and a charge is made according to
the circumstances of the case.
Bedding and wearing apparel are removed to the Disinfecting
Station, and are there submitted to steam disinfection. The apparatus
used is of the type manufactured by Manlove and Elliot, and the steam
pressure employed varies between 180 to 250 lbs., according to the nature
of the articles. Books are treated with formalin.
The cleansing of persons and of premises in a verminous state has
occupied a considerable proportion of the time of the Disinfecting StafE.
Visits were paid to 36 houses and 2,071 articles of clothing, bedding etc.
were removed for disinfection. Individuals numbering 117 (98 men and
19 women) were given medicated baths at the Disinfecting Station,
which necessitated their making 874 attendances.
Notices from the London County Council in regard to school children
affected with vermin numbered 399, and the Disinfecting Superintendent
paid 1,190 visits of investigation to their homes. By agreement with the
London County Council, arrangements are in force for the treatment at
the Westminster Disinfecting Station of school children from the boroughs
of Battersea, Chelsea, Holborn, Kensington, Lambeth, St. Pancras,
St. Marylebone and the City of London.