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Street, Sermon Lane, Penton Street, Henry Street, Hermes Street,
Rodney Street, Collier Street, Southampton Street, and the whole
of that part of the Borough north of Pentonville Road.
Last year it will be remembered that systematic inspection was
made of streets around the Town Hall, and the above named series
of streets formed the second district surveyed in regard to workshops,
&c. In the latter part of 1903 a third district was taken,
comprising: City Road (part), Singer Street, Tabernacle Street,
Castle Street, Leonard Street, Cowper Street, etc. This third workshop
survey is not yet complete.
This work during 1903 has resulted in the inspection of 119
factories and about 400 workshops and workplaces.
II. Special Sanitary Regulations for Bakehouses
(see p. 182).
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.
Three hundred and two visits have been paid by the Workshop
Inspector to 259 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 179 that we have at least 342 such
out-workers doing work for firms in other Boroughs. 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 259 homes visited, in which trade work is being carried on,
it was found that in 81 places there was one person working ; in 25,
two persons ; in 7, three persons; in 5, four persons; in 21 places,
5 or more persons working. In 58 cases 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 outwork.
These cases, therefore, are in fact a sort of home workshop.
Three others were found to be " domestic workshops." In three