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Workshops.
At the end of 1936, there were 377 workshops on the Register,
including 125 domestic workshops. During the year, 393 inspections
were made and 73 notices served.
The chief occupations for males were bootmakers, tailors,
upholsterers and cabinet makers, builders and carpenters; and for
females, dressmakers, outfitters and costumiers, and tailors.
Outworkers.
Certain specified classes of work done at the homes of workers
are controlled by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. There are
87 such outworkers in Hampstead known to the Public Health
Department. Of these, 7 are factories, 24 are workshops, 5 are
workplaces and 51 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 49 lists in August.
These lists included the names of 134 and 129 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 112, 23 belonged to Hampstead and 89
elsewhere. Particulars of the latter were sent to the Local Authorities
concerned, while information concerning 37 outworkers resident
in Hampstead was received from other Authorities.
In no instance during 1936 was outwork found to be carried on
in unwholesome premises.
Rats and Mice (Destruction) Act, 1919.
The Borough Council issues an advisory leaflet on the eradication
of rats and mice, and rat poisons may be purchased from the Public
Health Department. Upon request, the Council sends an employee,
who lays poison baits at infested premises on three separate occasions,
for the sum of ten shillings. The services of a firm of professional
rat catchers are engaged to deal with any specially infested areas.
During the year advice and help has been given in connection
with 47 complaints of nuisance from rats and mice.