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Seven cases of infectious disease occurred in houses inhabited
by outworkers. 3 were cases of scarlet fever, 3 of diphtheria and 1
of erysipelas. All the patients except the one with erysipelas were
immediately removed to hospital and the premises disinfected, and
in no case was it found necessary to make an order to prohibit work
from being given out to the premises. The Home Office table
relating to outworkers will be found on page 117.
The outworkers premises in Hampstead are kept under regular
supervision. They are usually found to be in a satisfactory condition,
and any defects that are discovered are promptly remedied.
Factories.
The sanitation of factories is largely controlled by the Factory
Inspectors, but duties of considerable importance relating to general
sanitation devolve upon the Borough Council, who are responsible
among other duties, for the administration of section 38 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891. The section imposes upon the Council
the duty of securing " suitable and sufficient accommodation in the
way of sanitary conveniences " for the persons of both sexes employed
in the Hampstead factories, workshops and workplaces.
The following is a list of the different classes of factories in
Hampstead :—
Factories.
Art Metal Workers 2
Bakehouses 2
Boot makers 2
Brewers 1
Builders 4
Butchers 5
Carpet beaters 2
Chaffcutters 1
Cigarette makers 1
Coach builders 1
Coffee roasters 4
Corn chandlers 1
Dairymen 2
Engineers 1
Joiners and plasterers 1
Laundries 6
Manufacturing stationers 1
Monumental masons 1
Opticians 1
Photographic paper manufacturers
1
Pianoforte makers 1
Pianoforte string makers 1
Picture frame makers 1
Printers 10
Provision merchants 2
Stained glass makers 1
Steel grinders 1
Upholsterers 2
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