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arising from drains, water closets, urinals, or any other nuisance
whatever.
Note.— As stated in the prefatory note to the Special Report, it was
deemed desirable and most equitable to all parties that each underground
Bakehouse should be judged, without prejudice, on its own merits. Most
of the above conditions are absolutely binding and will be enforced with
strictness. Some are of a suggestive nature, and it is possible that
under exceptional circumstances the requirements may be met in other
ways.
III. Home Work.—This has reference to persons employed
by firms carrying out various simple trade processes at home. They
are out-workers doing work for firms belonging to Finsbury or
other Boroughs, but all of them working and living in Finsbury.
Eighty-one visits have been paid by the Workshop Inspector to
62 such homes. So that it will be seen that it is impossible to
keep pace with this branch of the work,for it is evident from the
Table on page 184 that we have at least 218 such out-workers
doing work for firms in other Boroughs. In addition to these a
considerable per centage of the 1,535 out-workers of Finsbury
firms are employed in the Borough, say, 300-400. In all
probability also there are many of whom we have not yet received
notification. Probably the home workers in Finsbury do not
number less than 750.
Of the 62 homes visited, in which trade work is being carried
on, it was found that 3 were extremely dirty, and 4 were overcrowded.
In ten cases careful enquiry elicited the fact that the
home work was not done only by the out-worker himself but that
he, in turn, employed others at his home to do the out-work.
These cases, therefore, are in fact workshops. Three others
were found to be " domestic workshops." Hence of the 62
homes in which out-work is being carried on, 10 are ordinary
workshops and three are domestic workshops. In three cases
also, it should be recorded, there was the occurrence of infectious
disease.