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35.
Communications sent to H.M, Inspector of Factories during 1950
totalled 30 and those received from him totalled 29.
HOME WORK.
During the year 64 lists of outworkers were received from
employers in the Borough. 34 in the first half year due in February,
and 30 in the second half year due in August. These lists
contained the names of 1,627 outworkers, of whom 1,245 were not
resident in Shoreditch. The addresses of those non-resident were
forwarded to the Sanitary Authorities of the districts to which they
belonged.
Lists were also received from 20 other Local Authorities
containing the names of 440 outworkers living in Shoreditch and
employed by firms outside the Borough. The total number of outworkers
reported was therefore 2,059.
As has been pointed out in previous reports, in numerous
instances names and addresses of outworkers are duplicated owing
"to lists being sent in twice a year, and in some cases outworkers
are employed by more than one firm, so that the numbers given must
not be taken as representing actual numbers of individual workers.
The tables on pages 36 and 37 show the distribution of outworkers
as regards trades.
During the year 606 visits of inspection were made to places
where home work was being carried on, but no defect necessitating
the service of a sanitary notice was found.