Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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Outworkers.
Information came to the knowledge of the Public Health
Department that 630 persons residing in Camberwell were employed
in carrying out work in their own homes on behalf of employers in
this Borough and elsewhere.
Eleven cautionary letters were sent 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 following is an analysis of the industries in which these
workers were engaged.
The following is an analysis of the industries in which these workers were engaged. Table Showing Trades of Outworkers in Employment at the end of 1937.
Art publishing | 1 |
Artificial Flowers | 2 |
Baby linen | 12 |
Berets | 4 |
Blinds | 1 |
Blouses | 10 |
Boots and shoes | 7 |
Braces | 3 |
Brassieres | 1 |
Brushes | 4 |
Cardboard boxes | 10 |
Card lacing | 3 |
Chemist | 1 |
Chemists' sundries | 1 |
Coathangers | 27 |
Collars | 8 |
Crocheting | 3 |
Downquilts | 5 |
Drapery | 2 |
Dresses | 22 |
Dressing gowns | 8 |
Dyeing and cleaning | 3 |
Embroidery | 8 |
Engraving jewellery | 2 |
Fancy goods | 9 |
Feather curling | 2 |
Gloves | 1 |
Gold lace | 1 |
Gowns | 21 |
Hairnets and combs | 1 |
Handbags | 2 |
Handkerchief sachets | 2 |
Hats | 3 |
Hosiers | 2 |
Ivory and bone goods | 1 |
Knitted goods | 2 |
Label cutting | 1 |
Lampshades | 2 |
Leatherwork | 3 |
Mantles | 144 |
Millinery | 1 |
Mounting animal-skin rugs | 1 |
Needlework | 3 |
Novelties | 2 |
Outfitting | I |
Overalls | 2 |
Paper bags | 7 |
Polishing and fitting | 1 |
Pyjamas | 2 |
Rag dolls | 2 |
Shirts | 16 |
Skirts | 5 |
Stationery | 2 |
Tailoring | 25 |
Ties | 39 |
Toys | 2 |
Umbrellas | 4 |
Underclothing | 13 |
Upholstery | 2 |
Veils | 1 |
Wearing apparel | 22 |
Woollen goods | 1 |
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