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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 1904

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1904

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Trade.No. of Outworkers.Trade.No. of Outworkers
Waistcoats27Corsets7
Artificial Florist16Miscellaneous49
Belts29Trade not stated175
Clothiers and Outfitters492,472
Boxes9

Table: The local authorities from which we have received names and addresses of outworkers during the last year are the following:—

The local authorities from which we have received names and addresses of outworkers during the last year are the following:—

City of London75Bermondsey4
Finsbury548Chelsea2
Islington273Hampstead5
Shoreditch96Paddington2
Bethnal Green76South wark6
Poplar39St. Pancras3
Marylebone1Tottenham6
Croydon1Wandsworth2
Camberwell2Walthamstow1
Stoke Newington54Hull1
Stepney28Kensington2
Hornsey11,228

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LIST OF OUTWORKERS FORWARDED TO OTHER
BOROUGHS DURING 1904.
On examination of the list of outworkers sent in by employers in
this Borough we found 1,570 whose addresses were in other districts.

Table: The names and addresses of these were forwarded to their respective local authorities, as given in the following list:—

The names and addresses of these were forwarded to their respective local authorities, as given in the following list:—

Bethnal Green411Walthamstow106
Stepney119Islington137
Tottenham85Deptford16
Camberwell71Southwark14
Lewisham1Edmonton13
Ilford2East Ham6