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* If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1. and subdivides his list in such a wav as to show the number of workers in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 6 as the case may be) against the principal
class only, but the outworkers should be assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes. A footnote should be added to show that this has been done.
† The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those employers who comply strictlv with the statutory duty of sending two lists each year and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. The entries in column 2 must necessarily
be even numbers, as there will be two lists for each employer—in some previous returns odd numbers have been inserted The figure in columns 3 and 4 will usually be (approximately) double of the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February
and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's name will often be repeated.
§ In view of the wide discrepancies found to exist between the totals in the two columns when the returns are added together it is desired that care may be taken to give exact figures. Only those addresses should be counted which have actually been received from or forwarded
to other Council during the year covered by the reports.

Dated 31st December, 1909. (Signature) W. COLLINGRIDGE, Medical Officer of Health,
Note.—The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (S. 132), requires the Medical Officer of Health in his Annual Report to the District Council to report specifically on the administration of that Act in workshops and workplaces, and to send a copy of his Annual Keport, or so
much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State (Home Office). If the Annual Report is presented otherwise than in print it is unnecessary to include in the copy sent to the Home Office the portions which do not relate to factories, workshops, workplaces,
or homework. The duties of Local Authorities and the Medical Officer of Health under the Act of 1901 are detailed in the Home Office Memorandum of December, 1904. A further Memorandum, on the Home Work Provisions of the Factory Act was issued to all District
Councils and Medical Officers of Health in October, 1906.