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HOME WORKERS.
Of the 3,637 workmen and contractors whose
names appeared on the lists received, 2,509 resided
within the Borough. The latter figure 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 2,313. The number of premises found
to be in an insanitary condition was 384, or 44 per
cent of the 876 premises inspected. Notices were
served in 315 cases, 55 premises being already under
notice arising from other visits, and a verbal intimation
only being given in the remaining 14 cases.
Difficulty is experienced in getting some 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 in two instances, the
proceedings involving each employer in £2 2s. 0d.
costs.