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Camberwell 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell.
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Outworkers.
During the year lists containing the names of 625 outworkers
residing in Camberwell were received from employers carrying on
business in this Borough and from other local sanitary authorities.
The number of visits of inspection of these premises where home
work was carried on was 645. It was necessary to serve notices
for unwholesome conditions existing at two of these premises. It
was also necessary to send cautionary letters to 8 employers for
neglecting to furnish a list of the names and addresses of outworkers
in their employ.
The following is an analysis of the industries in which these
persons were engaged.
Table showing Trades of Outworkers in Employment at the end of 1938.
| Art publishing | 1 |
| Artificial Flowers 2 | 2 |
| Baby linen | 11 |
| Berets | 3 |
| Blinds | 1 |
| Blouses | 9 |
| Boots and shoes | 7 |
| Braces | 1 |
| Brassieres | 1 |
| Brushes | 4 |
| Cardboard boxes | 10 |
| Card lacing | 3 |
| Chemist | 1 |
| Chemists' sundries | 1 |
| Coathangers | 26 |
| Collars | 3 |
| Crocheting | 3 |
| Downquilts | 3 |
| Drapery | 3 |
| Dresses | 18 |
| Dressing gowns | 6 |
| Dyeing and cleaning | 1 |
| Embroidery | 5 |
| Engraving jewellery | 3 |
| Fancy goods | 8 |
| Feather curling | 2 |
| Gloves | 1 |
| Gold lace | 1 |
| Gowns | 24 |
| Hairnets and combs | 1 |
| Handbags | 3 |
| Handkerchief sachets | 1 |
| Hats | 2 |
| Hosiers | 2 |
| Ivory and bone goods | 1 |
| Label cutting | 5 |
| Lampshades | 35 |
| Leatherwork | 4 |
| Mantles | 155 |
| Millinery | 1 |
| Mounting animal-skin rugs | 1 |
| Needlework | 4 |
| Novelties | 1 |
| Outfitting | 1 |
| Overalls | 2 |
| Painting nursery articles | 1 |
| Paper bags | 5 |
| Polishing and fitting | 1 |
| Printing | 3 |
| Pyjamas | 3 |
| Rag dolls | 1 |
| Shirts | 15 |
| Skirts | 9 |
| Stationery | 1 |
| Tailoring | 25 |
| Ties | 41 |
| Toys | 1 |
| Umbrellas | 2 |
| Underclothing | 10 |
| Upholstery | 2 |
| Veils | 2 |
| Wearing apparel | 26 |
| Woollen goods | 1 |
| 530 |