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City of London 1912
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1912
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3. HOME WORK.
| NATURE OF WORK. * | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES, SECTION 108. | OUTWORK IN INFECTED PREMISES, SECTIONS 109, 110. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on occupiers as to keepin g or sending Lists. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (S. 110). | Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110) | |||||||
| Lists.† | Sending twice in the year. | Sending once in the year. | Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists. | Failing to send lists. | |||||||||||
| Outworkers.† | Lists. | Outworkers. | |||||||||||||
| Contractors. | Workmen. | Contractors. | Workmen. | ||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) |
| Wearing Apparel— | |||||||||||||||
| (1) making, &c. | 1,271 | 3,361 | 10,605 | 89 | 178 | 577 | |||||||||
| (2) cleaning and washing | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | ... | 2 | |||||||||
| Household linen | 2 | ... | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Lace, Lace Curtains and Nets | 4 | ... | 50 | ||||||||||||
| Curtains and furniture hangings | 2 | ... | 12 | ||||||||||||
| Furniture and Upholstery | |||||||||||||||
| Electro Plate | |||||||||||||||
| File making | |||||||||||||||
| Brass and brass articles | |||||||||||||||
| Fur pulling | 27 | 184 | 268 | 3 | ... | 38 | |||||||||
| Cables and Chains | |||||||||||||||
| Anchors and Grapnels | |||||||||||||||
| Cart Gear | |||||||||||||||
| Locks, Latches and Keys | |||||||||||||||
| Umbrellas, &c. | 54 | 16 | 493 | 1 | ... | 9 | |||||||||
| Artificial Flowers | 14 | 78 | 217 | 4 | ... | 60 | |||||||||
| Nets, other than Wire Nets | |||||||||||||||
| Tents | |||||||||||||||
| Sacks | |||||||||||||||
| Racquet and Tennis Balls | |||||||||||||||
| Paper, &c., Boxes, Paper Bags | 4 | 15 | |||||||||||||
| Brush making | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | |||||||||
| Pea picking | |||||||||||||||
| Feather sorting | |||||||||||||||
| Carding, &c., of Buttons, &c. | |||||||||||||||
| Stuffed Toys | |||||||||||||||
| Basket making | |||||||||||||||
| Chocolates and sweetmeats | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,382 | 3,656 | 11,661 | 99 | 178 | 688 | 2,259 | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. | Nil. |
*If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1, and subdivides his list in such a way as to show the number of workers in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 5 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 strictly 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 figures 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 reneated.
4.—REGISTERED WORKSHOPS. 5.—OTHER MATTERS.
| Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of the year. | Number. | Class | Number. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (1) | (2) | |||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | General Workshops | ; 3,657 | Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:— | |||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 106 | |||||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 5) | Notified by H.M. Inspector | 45 | ||||
| Workshop Bakehouses (including six Factory Bakehouses) | 27 | Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector | 45 | |||
| Other | 31 | |||||
| Total number of Workshops on Register | 3,684 | Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):— | ||||
| Certificates granted during the year | Nil. | |||||
| In use at the end of the year | 21 | |||||
Dated 31st December, 1912.
(Signature)
W. COLLINGR1D GE. Medical Officer ofHealth.
Note. The Factory and orkshop 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 Report, 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.