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Battersea 1907

Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1907

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II. Section no (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 or repairing of umbrellas, sunshades, parasols,
or parts thereof;
The making of artificial flowers;
The making of nets other than wire nets ;
The making of tents;
The making or repairing of sacks;
The covering of racket or tennis balls ;
The making of paper bags;
The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof
made wholly or partially of paper, cardboard, chip, or
similar material ;
The making of brushes;
Pea picking;
Feather sorting;
The carding, boxing, or packeting of buttons, hooks and
eyes, pins, and hair pins ;
The making of stuffed toys;
The making of baskets ;
And any processes incidental to the above.
2. The lists of out-workers 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 shown in the Schedule hereto.
3. This Order may be referred to as the Home Work Order of
the 23rd May, 1907.
4. The Home Work Order of the 15th August, 1905, is hereby
revoked.
H. J. Gladstone,
One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Home Office, Whitehall,
23rd May, 1907.