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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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| NATURE OF WORK.(1) | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES, SECTION 108. | OUTWORK IN INFECTED PREMISES. SECTIONS 109, 110. | ||||||||||||
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| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending lists.(8) | Prosecutions. | Instances(11) | Notices served.(12) | Prosecutions (13) | Instances. (14) | Orders made (s. 110).(15) | Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110).(16) | |||||||
| Sending twice in the year. | Sending once in the year. | Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists.(9) | Failing to send lists.(10) | ||||||||||||
| Lists.(2) | Outworkers. | Lists(6) | Outworkers. | ||||||||||||
| Contractors. 3) | Workmen.(4) | Contractors.(6) | Workmen. (7) | ||||||||||||
| Wearing apparel— making, &c. | 33 | 21 | 316 | 4 | 11 | 47 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| cleaning and washing | 3 | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Household linen | 2 | 7 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Lace, lace curtains and nets | 2 | — | 3 | — | — | - | 2 | - : | . . — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Furniture and upholstery | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Electric-plate | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Umbrellas, etc | 3 | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 44 | 47 | 327 | 4 | — | 54 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||