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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 1911
Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1911
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On examination of the lists of outworkers sent in by
employers in this Borough during 1911, I found 2,477 whose
addresses were in other districts. The names and addresses of
these were forwarded to their respective local authorities, as
given in the following list:—
Acton 1
Amersham 3
Bermondsey 8
Bethnal Green 691
Brentford 2
Camberwell 37
Chingford 1
Chiswick 6
City of London 2
Croydon 2
Deptford 2
East Ham 12
Edmonton 9
Enfield 5
Erith 1
Finsbury 22
Great Missenden 1
Greenwich 1
Hammersmith 1
Holborn 2
Hornsey 8
Ilford 10
Islington 245
Kensington 1
Lambeth 8
Lewisham 3
Leyton 103
Manchester 1
Poplar 217
St. Pancras 9
Shoreditch 349
Southwark 8
Stepney 238
Stoke Newington 133
Teddington 1
Tottenham 103
Walton-on-Thames 1
Walthamstow 182
Wandsworth 4
Welling 1
Westminster 3
West Ham 32
Woodford 2
Wood Green 4
Woolwich 2
2,477
During the year 1911 Miss Portlock (the Inspector appointed
for the inspection of outworkers' premises) made 1,171 inspections
and 682 re-inspections. She also made 877 visits without inspection,
the outworkers either having moved or being deceased (464),
or having given up homework (117), or being out at the time of