London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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| Nature of Work | Section 110 | Section 111 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of outworkers in August list required by Sect. 110(1)(c) | No. of cases of default in sending lists to the Council | No. of prosecutions for failure to supply lists | No. of instances of work in unwholesome premises | Notices served | Prosecutions | |
| Wearing apparel Making, etc. | 1,646 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Household linen | 16 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Curtain and furniture hangings | 14 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Furniture and upholstery | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Fur pul1ing | 11 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Umbrellas, etc. | 21 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Artifical flowers | 52 | - | - | - | - | |
| The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or partially of paper | 198 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Brush making | 21 | - | - | - | - | |
| Feather sorting | 17 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carding, etc. of buttons, etc. | 65 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cosaques, Christmas crackers, Christmas stockings, etc. | 53 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lampshades | 36 | - | - | - | - | |
| TOTAL | 2,156 | - | - | - | - | |
Outworkers
Many firms arrange for some work to be undertaken as outwork
either under contract by other factories or by homeworkers and in
order to check the spread of vermin or of infectious disease information
as to such outwork must be supplied in relation to certain
classes of work. Because Smallpox and Scarlet Fever, the two
diseases considered most likely to be spread in this way, are no