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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
Hackney 1903
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1903
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On examination of the lists of outworkers supplied to the local
authority by the employers we found the names and addresses of 845
who were residing in other districts. These were sent on to their
respective local authorities. The following is a list of such local
authorities with the number of outworkers whose names and
addresses were forwarded.
LIST OF OUTWORKERS FORWARDED TO OTHER BOROUGHS DURING 1903.
| Bethnal Green | 236 | West Ham | 22 |
| Stepney | 50 | Finsbury | 8 |
| Tottenham | 51 | Walthamstow | 54 |
| Camberwell | 28 | Islington | 87 |
| Lewisham | 1 | Deptford | 8 |
| Uxbridge | 1 | Southwark | 9 |
| St. Pancras | 3 | Edmonton | 8 |
| Bermondsey | 6 | East Ham | 1 |
| Leytonstone | 9 | Croynon | 1 |
| Wood Green | 1 | Hampstead | 2 |
| Greenwich | 2 | Willesden | 2 |
| Woolwich | 1 | Southgate | 1 |
| Shoreditch | 139 | Poplar | 49 |
| Leyton | 17 | Stoke Newington | 32 |
| Wandsworth | 4 | Hornsey | 6 |
| Hammersmith | 1 | Lambeth | 5 |
| 845 |
With respect to the inspection of outworkers premises, Miss
Teebay was able during the year, in addition to her work of workshop
inspections, to deal with 139 outworkers premises. Of these 11 were
found dirty, 4 dilapidated, 5 had defective roofs, 7 had defective
w.c's., 3 defective dust-bins and 3 improperly paved yards. I
stated in my annual report for 1903 that in order to ensure the
inspection of outworkers premises it would be necessary for the
Borough Council to employ another female Inspector. The attention