Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the public health of Finsbury 1905 including annual report on factories and workshops
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OUT-WORKERS.
Number of out-workers' premises visited | 604 | |
Total number of visits made | 707 | |
Number in which wrong address was given or outworkers had removed | 147 | |
Number of out-workers workshops (Particulars of which are included in the Report on Workshops) | 98 | |
Number of domestic workshops | 17 | |
„ of other home-workers'premises | 342 | |
„ of re-visits | 103 | |
HOME-WORKERS. | ||
Particulars relating to Work in 359 homes. | ||
Number in which work was done in work-rooms only | 33 | |
„ „ „ living-rooms | 138 | |
„ „ „ „ bed-rooms | 21 | |
„ „ „ „ bed and living rooms | 167 | |
359 | ||
„ of cases in which room was clean | 211 | |
„ „ „ „ in fair order | 118 | |
,, ,, ,, „ dirty | 30 | |
359 | ||
„ of one room tenements occupicd | 8l | |
of two „ „ „ | 136 | |
„ of three „ „ „ | 82 | |
„ of four and more „ „ | 60 | |
359 | ||
„ of persons employed as home-workers | 406 | |
,, ,, men | 55 | |
„ „ women | 351 | |
Sanitary defects remedied | 61 | |
Rooms stripped and cleansed | 20 | |
Floor and bedding cleansed | 6 | |
Sanitary conveniences cleansed | 5 | |
„ „ defects remedied | 10 | |
Overcrowding abated | 1 | |
Yard walls limewashed | 4 | |
Dust-bin absent or dilapidated | 5 | |
Other nuisances | 10 |
IV. Outworkers' Lists.
Under Section 107 of the Act employers in certain industries,
namely: (a) making, cleaning, washing, altering, finishing and
repairing of wearing apparel; (b) ditto for lace, lace curtains, and