London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1905
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