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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
Kensington 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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The number of outworkers belonging to each of these three classes is shown in the following T able:—
| Outworkers in Workshops or Factories | 39 |
| Outworkers in Domestic Workshops | 35 |
| Outworkers in their own Homes | 116 |
| Total number of Outworkers | 190 |
The factories and workshops referred to in the above list are included in the tables which
show the trades carried on in the factories and workshops on the Council's register.
The nature of the work given out to the 116 home workers on the register is as follows:—
| Tailoring | 51 |
| Dressmaking | 33 |
| Bootmaking | 16 |
| Outfitting | 4 |
| Shirtmaking | 4 |
| Millinery | 2 |
| Embroidery | 1 |
| Furrier | 1 |
| Drapery | 1 |
| Cleaning | 1 |
| Glovemaking | 1 |
| Weaving | 1 |
| 116 |
No cases of infectious disease were reported during the year from premises where home work
was carried on.
The appended Table summarises the work for the year of the Women Health Officer under the Factory and Workshops' Acts, so far as it is capable of being expressed in this form:—
| 1. No. of Factory Inspections | 91 |
| 2. „ Workshop „ | 514 |
| 3. „ Home Workers Inspections | 132 |
| 4. „ Work Place „ | 15 |
| 5. Sanitary Defects Remedied. | |
| (a) Additional means of ventilation provided | — |
| (b) Rooms cleansed and whitewashed | 9 |
| (c) Miscellaneous defects remedied | 3 |
| (d) Sanitary conveniences, defects remedied | 2 |
| „ „ insufficient | — |
| „ „ not separate for sexes | — |
Home Office Tables.
The following tables contain a summary of the inspections made and the defects found and
remedied in workshops and factories within the Borough, where men, women, young persons or
children are employed. In Table IV. the chief classes of workshops are set forth. Table V.
shows the number of cases in which action was taken in matters referred to the Council by H.M.
Inspectors.
| Premises. | Number of | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Inspections. | Written Notices. | Prosecutions. | |
| Factories (including Factory Laundries) | 219 | 3 | - |
| Workshops (including Workshop Laundries) | 867 | 12 | — |
| Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises included in Table 3 of this Section of the Report) | 15 | — | — |
| Total | 1101 | 15 | — |