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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
Hampstead 1915
Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Workplaces.
1081 inspections of workplaces were made during the year and
44 notices were served.
Home-Work. 99 lists of outworkers were received from employers. These contained 239 entries. There are 67 outworkers' premises in Hampstead.
| NATURE OF WORK. | Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists. | Prosecutions. | |||||||
| Sending Twice in the year. | Sending Once in the year. | ||||||||
| Failing to keep or permit in* spection of lists | Failing to send lists. | ||||||||
| Listst | Outworkers.† | Lists | Outworkers. | ||||||
| Contractors. | Workmen. | Con-tractors. | Workmen. | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Wearing Apparel- | |||||||||
| (1) making, etc. | 64 | 38 | 87 | 5 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — |
| (2) cleaning and washing | 12 | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Houshold linen | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Lace, lace curtains and nets and net | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Curtains & furniture hangings | 8 | 1 | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Furniture and upholstery | 2 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Electro-plate | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| File-making | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brass and brass articles | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Fur pulling | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cables and chains | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Anchors and grapnels | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cart gear | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Locks, latches and keys | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Umbrellas, etc. | — | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Artificial flowers | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nets, other than wire nets | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tents | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sacks | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Racquets and tennis balls | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paper, etc., boxes, paper bags | 2 | 1 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Brush making | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pea picking | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Feather sorting | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Carding, etc., of buttons, etc. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Stuffed toys | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Basket making | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chocolates and sweetmeats Cosaques, Christmas Crackers, | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Christmas Stockings, etc. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Textile weaving | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 92 | 87 | 143 | 7 | 5 | 4 | — | — | — |
Outwork in unwholesome premises, Sec. 108, Nil; Outwork in infected premises, Sees. 109110,
Nil.
* In the case of those occupiers who gave out work of more than one of the classes specified in
Column 1, and subdivided their lists in such a way as to show the number of workers in each class
of work, the list has been included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be) against the
principal class only, but the outworkers have been assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into
their respective classes.
† The figures 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.