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Outworkers
The names of 635 outworkers and their addresses in the Borough
were reported by local employers and by Medical Officers of Health
of other districts. It was necessary to send six cautionary letters
to employers in the Borough for neglecting to send a list of the
names and addresses of outworkers employed as required by
Section 107 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
The number of visits paid to outworkers' premises in 1936 was
633. It was necessary to serve 34 notices under the provisions of
the Public Health (London) Act to remedy sanitary defects. Three
cases of infectious disease were reported during the year from
premises where home work was carried on.
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
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