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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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The following table shows the nature of the work conducted by these persons in their own homes. Table showing Trades of Outworkers in Employment at the end of 1936.
| Art publishing | 1 |
| Artificial Flowers | 1 |
| Baby linen | 4 |
| Berets | 1 |
| Blinds | 1 |
| Blouses | 11 |
| Boots and shoes | 6 |
| Braces | 3 |
| Brushes | 3 |
| Button holes | 1 |
| Cardboard boxes | 9 |
| Card lacing | 1 |
| Chemist | 1 |
| Coathangers | 9 |
| Collars | 7 |
| Confetti bags | 2 |
| Crocheting | 4 |
| Downquilts | 5 |
| Drapery | 2 |
| Dresses | 23 |
| Dressing gowns | 8 |
| Dyeing and cleaning | 2 |
| Embroidery | 10 |
| Engraving jewellery | 2 |
| Fancy goods | 14 |
| Furs | 1 |
| Gloves | 1 |
| Gold lace 1 | 1 |
| Gowns | 20 |
| Hairnets and combs | 1 |
| Handkerchief sachets | 4 |
| Hassocks | 1 |
| Hats | 3 |
| Hosiers | 2 |
| Household linen | 1 |
| Ivory and bone goods | 1 |
| Lampshades | 1 |
| Leatherwork | 3 |
| Machine belting | 1 |
| Mantles | 152 |
| Needlework | 4 |
| Novelties | 2 |
| Nurses' dresses | 2 |
| Outfitting | 1 |
| Overalls | 3 |
| Paper bags | 8 |
| Picot edging 1 | 1 |
| Polishing and fitting | 1 |
| Pyjamas | 2 |
| Rag dolls | 1 |
| Shirts | 20 |
| Skirts | 3 |
| Tailoring | 32 |
| Ties | 35 |
| Toys | 4 |
| Umbrella covers | 3 |
| Underclothing | 18 |
| Veils | 1 |
| Watch repairs | 1 |
| Wearing apparel | 28 |
| Woollen goods | 1 |
| 495 |
2.—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Number of Defects.
Number of
Prosecutions.
(5)
Particulars.
(1)
Referred
to H.M.
Inspector.
(4)
Found.
(2)
I
"j
Remedied.
(3)
Nuisances under the Public Health
Acts: —*
-
Want of cleanliness
182
159
-
Want of ventilation
8
7
-
-
Overcrowding
-
-
-
-
Want of drainage floors
2
1
-
-
108
-
Other nuisances
129
-
Sanitary accommodation —
Insufficient
3
3
-
-
Unsuitable or defective
75
65
-
-
Not separate for sexes
2
1
-
-
Offences under the Factory and
Workshop Acts: —
Illegal occupation of underground
bakehouse (s.101)
-
-
-
-
Other offences [excluding offences
relating to outwork and
offences under the Sections
mentioned in the Schedule to
the Ministry of Health (Factories
and Workshops Transfer
of Powers) Order, 1921]
4
4
4
-
Total
405
348
4
-
*Including those specified in sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, as remediable under the Public Health Acts.