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The number of factories under observation for insanitary conditions during the
year was 61, and in connection with them some 61 sanitary notices were served.
The work carried out to comply with these notices included the cleansing and repairing
of water-closets in 61 instances, the provision of new drains in 2, the construction
of new water-closets in 15, the removal of obstructions from drains and waterclosets
in 5 instances, besides several other matters. Limewashing of factories can
only legally be dealt with by the factory inspector, but defects in connection with
the sanitary arrangements in factories are matters within the province of the sanitary
authority.
During the year 65 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 37 in the first and 28 in the second half-year. Those for the first halfyear
are due in February, for the second in August. These lists contained the names
of 787 out-workers, of whom 608 were not residents in Shoreditch. The addresses
of those non-resident were forwarded to the sanitary authorities of the districts to
which they belonged. Communications were received from various sanitary
authorities relating to some 1,701 out-workers, and of these 22 were residents in
other Boroughs, and their addresses were duly forwarded to the authorities concerned.
A table is given in the Appendix showing the numbers of addresses of out-workers
received from the sanitary authorities referred to during 1923.
The number of out-workers reported was 2,488 and of these some 1,866 were
residents in Shoreditch. These figures are below the average for the past five
years, and they show a decrease as compared with those for 1922.
As pointed out in previous reports, in numerous instances names and addresses
of out-workers are duplicated owing to lists being sent in twice a year, and in some
cases the same out-workers are employed by more than one firm, so that the numbers
given above must not be taken as representing the actual numbers of individual