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HOME WORKERS.
Of the 3,800 workmen and contractors whose
names appeared on the lists received, 2,532 resided
within the Borough. This figure, 2,532, is approximately
double the number of individual workers, as
in the majority of cases the same people are notified
in February and in August.
The number of visits paid to Home Workers'
dwellings was 1,127. The number of premises found
to be in an insanitary condition was 242, or 36 per
cent, of the 659 premises inspected. Notices were
served in 205 cases, 30 premises being already under
notice arising from other visits, and a verbal intimation
only being given in the remaining 7 cases.
Difficulty is occasionally experienced in getting
employers promptly and accurately to send in copies
of their list of outworkers, and it was found necessary
in the course of the year to prosecute one employer
on this account, when £2 2s. costs were awarded to the
Council.