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Coulsdon and Purley 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Coulsdon]

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3—HOME WORK

NATURE OF WORK*OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107.OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES, Sec. 108OUTWORK IN INFECTED PllEM ISER, Sec 109, 110-
Lists received from Employers.Notice served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending listsProsecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.Instances.Orders made (S. 110),Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110)
Twice in the yearOnce in the yearFailing to keep or permit inspection of lists.Failing to send list.
Lists.*Outworkers. †Lists.Outworkers.†
ContractorsWorkmen.Contractors.Workmen.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)
Wearing Apparel—
(1) making, etc.
(2) cleaning and washing
Household linen
Lace, lace curtains and nets
Curtains and furniniture hangings
Furniture and upholstery
Electro plate
File making
Brass & brass articles Fur pulling
Cables and chains
Anchors & grapnels Cart gear
Locks, latches & keys Umbrellas, etc.
Artificial flowers .
Nets, other than wire nets
Tents
Sacks Racquet and tennis balls
Paper, etc., boxes, paper bags
Brush making
Pea picking
Feather sorting
Carding, &c. of buttons, Ac.
Stuffed toys
Basket making
Chocolates and sweetmeats
Cosaques, Xmas crackers, stockings, &c.
Textile weaving
Total

*If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1, and subdivides his list in such a way as
to show the number of workers in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be)
against the principal class only, but the outworkers should be assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes.
A footnote should be added to show that this has been done.
†The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of lists received from those employers who comply
strictly with the statutory duty of sending two lists each year and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. The
entries in column 2 must necessarily be even numbers, as there will be two lists for each employer—in some previous returns odd
numbers have been inserted. The figures in columns 3 and 4 will usually be (approximately) double of the number of
individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's
name will often be repeated.