Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1905
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II. Section 110 (relating to the prohibition of home
work in places where there is infectious disease) shall
apply to the following classes of work
The making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing
and repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental
thereto (as in the said section specified);
The making, ornamenting, mending, and finishing of lace and of
lace curtains and nets;
Upholstery work;
Fur-pulling;
The making of covers for, and the covering, finishing, altering or
repairing of, umbrellas, sunshades, parasols, and articles of a
similar character, and any work incidental thereto;
The making of paper bags and of paper boxes;
Brushmaking; and
The making of stuffed toys.
2. The lists of outworkers required to be kept by
Section 107 and the copies thereof shall be kept and
made in the form and manner and with the particulars
shewn in the Schedule hereto.
3. This Order may be referred to as the Home Work
Order of the 15th August, 1905.
4. The Home Work Orders of the 11th December,
1901, and of the 14th July, 1902, are hereby revoked.
A. AKERS-DOUGLAS,
One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Home Office, Whitehall.
15th August, 1905.