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Outworkers.
During 1947, 71 lists of outworkers were received, viz., 45 from
Battersea employers, containing 108 names, and 26 from the Medical
Officers of Health of other districts, containing 93 names.
After eliminating outworkers not residing in Battersea (of whon
65 names were forwarded to the Medical Officers of the districts concerned)
and duplicated entries, there remained the names and addresses
of 91 Battersea outworkers.
The total number of registered outworkers in the Borough is 13l,
of whom 10 are " contractors," i.e., employers of labour for the purpose
of the home-work received by them, and many of the premises are
workshops within the meaning of the term as used in the Factory
and Workshop Act.
There were 374 inspections of outworkers' premises, most of which
were made by the female inspector.
Bakehouses.
There were 41 bakehouses in Battersea at the end of 1947, at
one of which no person other than the proprietor was employed.
Of this total 38 use power and are therefore technically factories.
Ten of the 41 are underground bakehouses. Additions to and removals
from the list during 1947 were :—
New bakehouses Factories—2
Premises closed Factories—1 (1 underground).
Housing.
New Working Class Dwellings.
At the end of the year work was nearing completion on some of
the dwellings on the Sheepcote Lane Extension Site, and work was
hand on the Honeywell Road Site and in the Hibbert Street Clearance
Area.
In addition, 118 prefabricated bungalows and one flat were completed
during the year on various sites throughout the Borough.
Clearance Areas.
Hibbert Street (Nos. 1 and 2) Areas.—The Orders in connection
with these areas were confirmed in 1938, but progress was held up
during the war years.
A number of the families residing within this area have been
re-housed during the year, and the premises closed. In one part
building work was in hand at the end of the year.
Demolition and Closing Orders.
During the year one house was represented with a view to a
Demolition Order being made under Section 11 of the Housing Act,
1936. The owner has given an undertaking to carry out the repairs
necessary to make this house fit for habitation, however, and this undertaking
was accepted subject to the works being carried out by the
15th May, 1948.