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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1926
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1926
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Home Work, 1926.
| NATURE OF WORK. | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | Outwork in Unwholesome Premises, Sec. 108. | Outwork in Infected Premises, Secs. 109, 110. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Notices served. | Prosecutions. | Instances. | Orders made (S. 110) | Prosecutions (Secs. 109, 110) | |||||||
| Sending twice in the year. | Sending | once in the year. | Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists. | Failing to send lists. | |||||||||||
| Lists. | Outworkers. | Lists. | Outworkers. | ||||||||||||
| Con-tractors. | Work-men. | Con-tractors. | Work-men. | ||||||||||||
| Wearing Apparel- | |||||||||||||||
| (1) Making | 54 | 12 | 157 | 2 | l | l | 72 | — | — | 11 | 11 | — | 1 | — | — |
| (2) Cleansing & Washing | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Furniture and Upholstery | 4 | 1 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Other Trades | 4 | — | 3 | 2 | — | 4 | 5 | — | — | l | l | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 62 | 13 | 166 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 81 | — | — | 12 | 12 | — | l | — | — |
Note.—Of the 185 names included in this table, only 56 were of work people residing in Battersea, the remaining names
being those of workers residing outside the Borough. The names of 166 additional Battersea outworkers were included in
the lists furnished by Medical Officers of Health of other Boroughs. There were therefore 222 Battersea home-workers named
in the lists.