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Workshops.
At the end of 1933, there were 315 workshops on the Register,
including 53 domestic workshops. During the year, 271 inspections
were made and 18 notices served.
The chief occupations in males were bootmakers, tailors,
upholsterers and cabinet makers, builders and carpenters; and for
females, dressmakers, outfitters and costumiers, wigmakers and
tailors.
The number of workrooms measured and Notice Cards re overcrowding
provided in 1933 was 5.
Outworkers.
Certain specified classes of work done at the homes of workers
are controlled by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. There are
67 such outworkers in Hampstead known to the Public Health
Department. Of these, 4 are factories, 14 are workshops, 5 are
workplaces and 44 are single workers. Persons sending out home
work are required to keep lists of their home workers and to send
copies of the lists to the Borough Council on or before the 1st February
and the 1st August in each year.
In February, 49 lists were received, and 47 lists in August.
These lists included the names of 140 and 136 outworkers respectively.
In many instances, of course, the same outworker's name was reported
by different firms twice in the year. Of the actual outworkers thus
notified amounting to 142, 26 belonged to Hampstead and 116