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HOME WORKERS.
Of the 3,586 workmen and contractors whose names
appeared on the lists received, 2,475 resided within the
Borough. The latter figure is approximately double
the number of individual workers, as in the majority,
of cases the same people are notified in February and
in August.
The number of visits paid to Home Workers'
dwellings was 1,904. The number of premises found
to be in an insanitary condition was 320, or 43 per
cent, of the 740 premises inspected. Notices were
served in 257 cases, 53 premises being already under
notice arising from other visits, and a verbal intimation
only being given in the remaining 10 cases.
Difficulty is still experienced in getting some
employers promptly and accurately to send in copies
of their list of outworkers, but no legal proceedings
were taken in the matter during the year.