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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
Camberwell 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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107 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which requires all
contractors employing outworkers to send on February 1st and
August 1st in each year a list of the names and addresses of such
outworkers to the Medical Officer of Health of the district.
Thirty-five sanitary notices were served during the year in
respect of unwholesome conditions found to exist at outworkers
premises.
Five cases of infectious disease were reported during the period
under review from premises where home-work was carried on.
The following table shows the nature of the work conducted
by outworkers in this Borough: —
The following table shows the nature of the work conducted by outworkers in this Borough:— Table showing Trades of Outworkers in Employment at end or 1933.
| Art publishing | 1 | Household linen | 2 |
| Baby linen | 6 | Ivory and bone goods | 1 |
| Blinds | 1 | Jumpers | 1 |
| Blouses | 16 | Leatherwork | 1 |
| Boots and shoes | 9 | Mantles | 174 |
| Braces | 1 | M/C belting | 1 |
| Brushes | 2 | Millinery | 3 |
| Button holes | 1 | Ladies' neckwear | 9 |
| Cardboard boxes | 12 | Gent's neckwear | 7 |
| Card lacing | 1 | Needlework | 8 |
| Chemist | 1 | Novelties | 1 |
| Chemists' sundries | 1 | Overalls | 4 |
| Clothing | 1 | Paper bags | 5 |
| Coathangers | 7 | Polishing and fitting | 1 |
| Corsets | 1 | Pyjamas | 3 |
| Crocheting | 3 | Quill and featherwork work | 1 |
| Down quilts | 3 | Rag dolls | 1 |
| Drapery | 4 | Shirts | 18 |
| Dressing gowns | 8 | Silks | 1 |
| Embroidery | 4 | Stationery | 1 |
| Engraving jewellery | 2 | Tailoring | 43 |
| Fancy goods | 12 | Ties | 33 |
| Furs | 2 | Toys | 1 |
| Gloves | 2 | Umbrellas | 4 |
| Glove cleaning | 1 | Underclothing | 33 |
| Gold lace | 1 | Wearing apparel | 28 |
| Gowns | 45 | Woollen goods | 2 |
| Handkerchief sachets | 2 | 547 | |
| Hats | 8 | ||
| Hosiers | 2 |