Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926
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The following table shows the number of male out-workers' premises registered in the Borough, together with the trades and the number of persons employed:—.
Trade. | Number on Register. | Persons Employed. | |
---|---|---|---|
Premises. | Workrooms | ||
Bootmaking | 33 | 33 | 35 |
Glovemaking | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Tailoring | 57 | 57 | 85 |
Other Trades | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Totals | 95 | 95 | 125 |
No new male out-workers (out-workers not previously registered)
were registered during the year.
There were 153 inspections made of male out-workers' premises
during 1926, and it was found necessary to serve notices
under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, in 6 cases to remedy
sanitary defects found on inspection, as follows:—
Want of cleansing; defective apparatus to w.c; dilapidations.
No case of infectious disease was notified during 1926 from
premises occupied by male outworkers.
Female.
The following is a list of the female out-workers registered in the Borough, together with the trades and the number of persons employed:—
Trade. | Number on Register. | Persons Employed. | |
---|---|---|---|
Premises. | Workrooms | ||
Blousemaking | 4 | 4 | 9 |
Boxmaking | 7 | 7 | 7 |
Dressmaking | 23 | 23 | 37 |
Embroidery | 23 | 23 | 23 |
Fancy goods | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Fine needlework | 4 | 4 | 5 |
Glovemaking | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Knitting and crochet | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Tailoring | 25 | 26 | 39 |
Underclothing | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Other trades | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Total | 118 | 119 | 156 |