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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
Shoreditch 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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3.— HOME WORK.
| Outworkers Lists, Section 107. | Number of Inspections of Outworkers premises. | Outwork in unwholesome premises, Section li8. | Outwork in infected premises, Sec. 109 & 110. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature of Work. | Lists received from Employers. | Number of Addresses of outworkers received from other Councils. | Number of Addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Notices servtd. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders Made (S. 1C9) | Prosecutions (S. 109, 110). | |||||
| Failing t - keep or permit inspection of Lists- | Failing to send lists. | ||||||||||||||
| Twice in the year. | Once in the year. | ||||||||||||||
| Lists. | Outworkers. | Lists. | Outworkers. | ||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | 13) | (1) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (131 | (14) | (15) | (16) |
| Wearing Apparel, Making, &c. | 20 | 462 | 16 | 168 | 1487 | 588 | _ | _ | 1317 | 69 | 69 | — | 54 | — | — |
| Furniture and Upholstery | _ | _ | — | — | 8 | — | - | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Fur Pulling | — | — | — | — | 14 | 3 | — | — | 9 | — | - | — | — | — | — |
| Umbrellas | — | — | — | — | 14 | 1 | — | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paper Bags and Boxes | — | — | 25 | 346 | 389 | 123 | — | — | 604 | 55 | 55 | — | 31 | — | — |
| Brush Making | — | — | — | — | 87 | 1 | — | — | 69 | 4 | — | 1 | — | — | |
| Total | 20 | 462 | 41 | 514 | 1999 | 716 | — | — | 2034 | 128 | 128 | — | 86 | — | — |
(a) Names and addresses of outworkers were not received in respect to the following classes of work: Lace, lace curtains and
nets, stuffed toys, file making, electro plate, cables and chains, anchors and grapnels, cart gear, locks, latches and keys.
(b) The figures in columns 2 and 3 are the total number of lists received from employers who sent them both for February and
gust, and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. They are, therefore, double the number of such employers, and
approximately double the number of individual outworkers whose names are given since in the February and August lists of
the same employers. The same outworker's name will oftentimes be repeated.
(c) There were no prosecutions, but letters were sent to employers in 8 instances for failures to send lists of outworkers employed
in making wearing apparel, etc., and in 25 instances for similar failures in connection with paper-bag and box making.