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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
During the year 1902, the lady Inspector only visited workshops
and not factories where women where employed, consequently
the number of laundries on the Register gives no idea of
the amount of laundry work carried on in the Borough.
All the large laundries are factories, and the number of
females employed in these is considerable. During the year the
majority of these were visited by the Sanitary Inspectors in their
several districts to inspect the sanitary conveniences, but in the
current year a more systematic inspection will be carried out by the
lady Sanitary Inspector.
I am glad to be able to report that in this Borough the condition
of the workshops as a whole was found to be satisfactory.
Outworkers.
During the year ending the 31st December, the names of 208
outworkers were received either from employers in this Borough
or from Medical Officers of Health of other Boroughs who had
received the names from the various employers. 141 of these
were women, and 67 men.
They were all visited and the room in which the work was
carried on inspected. In only 11 cases had cleansing to be carried
out or any other sanitary defects remedied.
The names of 95 outworkers were sent to the Medical
Officers of Health of other sanitary districts. The following list
gives the names of the district and the number of outworkers sent
to each :—Battersea, 37 ; Lambeth, 17; Camberwell, 7; Croydon,
Urban, 6; Stepney, 4; Wimbledon, 3; Fulham, 3; Southwark, 2;
St. Pancras, 2; and Croydon Rural, Marylebone, Bermondsey,
Chelsea, Hammersmith, Finsbury, South Woodford, Penge, Surbiton,
West Ham, Willesden, Enfield, East Ham, and Norwich,
one each.