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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
Hampstead 1921
Report for the year 1921 of the Medical Officer of Health
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3.—Home Work. 74 lists of outworkers were received from employers. These contained 197 entries.
| NATURE OF WORK. | Outworkers' Lists, Section 107. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists received from Employers. | |||||||
| Sending Twice in the year. | Sending Once in the year. | ||||||
| Lists | Outworkers† | Lists | Outworkers | ||||
| Contractors. | Workmen. | Contractors. | Workmen. | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| (1) | Wearing Apparel— | ||||||
| (a) making, &c. | 44 | 35 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 30 | |
| (b) cleaning and washing | 8 | 20 | — | 1 | 2 | — | |
| (2) | Making-up, ornamenting, finishing and re-pairing of table linen, bed linen, or other household linen (including in the term linen articles of cotton or cotton and linen mixtures) and any process incidental thereto | 4 | 5 | 1 | — | — | — |
| (3) | Making, ornamenting, mending, and finishing of lace and of lace curtains and nets | 2 | 6 | 4 | — | — | — |
| (4) | Making of curtains and furniture hangings and any process incidental thereto | 6 | 6 | 5 | — | — | — |
| (5) | Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work | — | 3 | — | ... | — | ... |
| (6) | Making of Electro-plate | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
| (7) | Making of files | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (8) | Manufacture of brass and of any articles or parts of articles of brass (including in the term brass any alloy or compound of copper with zinc or tin) | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
| (9) | Fur-pulling | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| (10) | Making of iron and steel cables and chains | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (11) | Making of iron and steel anchors and grapnels | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (12) | Making of cart gear, including swivels, rings, loops, gear-buckles, mullin bits, hooks, and attachments of all kinds | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (13) | Making of locks, latches, and keys | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| (14) | Making or repairing of umbrellas, sunshades, parasols, or parts thereof | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — |
| (15) | Making of artificial flowers | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (16) | Making of nets other than wire nets | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (17) | Making of tents | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (18) | Making or repairing of sacks | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (19) | Covering of racquet or tennis balls | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (20) | Making of paper bags | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (21) | Making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or partially of paper cardboard, chip, or similar material | 2 | — | 6 | — | — | — |
| (22) | Making of brushes | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (23) | Pea picking | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (24) | Feather sorting | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (25) | Carding, boxing, or packeting of buttons hooks and eyes, pins, and hair pins | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (26) | Making of stuffed toys | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (27) | Making of baskets | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (28) | Manufacture of chocolate or sweetmeats | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (29) | The making or filling of cosaques, Christmas crackers, Christmas stockings, or similar articles or parts thereof | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| (30) | The weaving of any textile fabric | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Total | 68 | 83 | 84 | 6 | 4 | 30 | |
Notices served on occupiers as to keeping or sending lists of Outworkers, Nil; Prosecutions
in relation to Outworkers' Lists, Nil.
Outwork in unwholesome premises, Sec. 103, Nil; Outwork in infected premises, Secs. 109 —
110, Nil.
* In the case of those occupiers who gave out work of more than one of the classes specified
in Column 1, and subdivided their lists in such a way as to show the number of workers in each
class of work, the list has been included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be)
against the principal class only, but the outworkers have been assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or
6 and 7) into their respective classes.
† The figures in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those
employers who comply strictly with the statutory duty of sending two lists each year, and of
the entries of names of outworkers in those lists.