London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Bethnal Green 1900

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of Bethnal Green during the year 1900

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district council of the district in which the factory or workshop
is situate.
(2.) Every district council shall cause the lists received in pursuance
of this section to be examined, and shall furnish the name
and place of employment of every outworker included in any
such list whose place of employment is outside its district to
the council of the district in which his place of employment is.
(3.) The lists kept by the occupier or contractor shall be open to
inspection by any inspector under the Factory Acts, and by
any officer of the district council, and the copies sent to the
council and the particulars furnished by one council to another
shall be open to inspection by any inspector under the Factory
Acts.
(4.) This section shall apply to any place from which any work
is given out, and to the occupier of that place, and to every
contractor employed by any such occupier in connection with
the said work, as if that place were a workshop.
(5.) In the event of a contravention of this section by the occupier
of a factory, workshop, or place, or by a contractor, the occupier
or contractor shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
Sec. 10.—(1.) If any inmate of a house is suffering from an infectious
disease to which this section applies, the district council
of the district in which the house is situate may make an order
forbidding any work to which this section applies to be given out
to any person living or working in that house, or such part thereof
as may be specified in the order, and any order so made may be
served on the occupier of any factory, or workshop or any other
place from which work is given out, or on the contractor employed
by any such occupier, in the manner provided by section seventynine
of the principal Act.
(2.) The order may be made notwithstanding that the person
suffering from an infectious disease may have been removed from
the house, and the order shall be made either for a specified time
or subject to the condition that the house or part thereof liable to
be infected shall be disinfected to the satisfaction of the medical