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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
Islington 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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[1911
| Notifications received from employers in the Borough of Islington | 2,796 |
| From employers in other districts per the Medical Officer of Health | 2,932 |
| Total number notified | 5,728 |
| 75 | |
| Unsatisfactory domestic conditions | 64 |
| 139 | |
| Notifications where work is done | 47 |
| Disinfection of workrooms and work | 47 |
| To employers failing to supply lists | . . 316 |
| Notification of outworkers to other districts | ... 1219 |
| 1,535 | |
| Distributed (stating cubic capacity, etc) | ... 167 |
| Making of wearing apparel | 5,269 |
| Artificial flower making | 162 |
| Furniture and upholstery | 47 |
| Paper bags and boxes | 179 |
| Brush making | 54 |
| Stuffed toys | 6 |
| Electro plate | 7 |
| Umbrellas | 3 |
| Chain making | 2 |
| 5,729 |
The following table shows the increase in the numbers of homeworkers registered as occupying one, two, or three room tenements for living and working since 1907:—
| 1907 | 1910 | |
| One room | 242 | 443 |
| Two rooms | 312 | 677 |
| Three | 316 | 328 |
During the first quarter of the year an anonymous complaint as to the insanitary
conditions under which caramels were being wrapped in certain parts of the Borough was
forwarded to the Public Health Department. Confectionery making, with its allied
branches, was not on the list of trades scheduled by the Home Office authorities, and any
employers of outdoor labour therefore were exempt from the necessity of giving information
as to the persons employed, or the conditions under which the work might be done outside
their own premises.