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Workshops.
At the end of 1937, there were 368 workshops on the Register,
including 114 domestic workshops. During the year, 69 inspections
were made and 23 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 are controlled
by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901. There are 82 such
outworkers (or home-workers) in Hampstead known to the Public
Health Department. Of these, 6 are factories, 22 are workshops, 5 are
workplaces and 49 are single workers. Persons sending out homework
are required to keep lists of their home-workers and to send
copies of these lists to the Borough Council on or before the
1st February and the 1st August in each year.
In February, 46 lists were received, and 43 lists in August.
These lists included the names of 118 and 115 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 121, 27 belonged to Hampstead and 94
elsewhere. Particulars of the latter were sent to the Local Authorities
concerned, while information concerning 38 outworkers resident
in Hampstead was received from other Authorities.
In no instance during 1937 was outwork found to be carried on
in unwholesome premises.
Factories Act, 1937.
This Act, which received the Royal Assent on 30th July, 1937,
consolidated, with amendments, the Factory and Workshop Acts, 1901
to 1929, and other enactments relating to factories, etc. Except as
otherwise provided, however, it will not come into operation, until
1st July, 1938. Section 128 provides that the Medical Officer of
Health shall, in his Annual Report to the Council, report specifically on
the administration of, and furnish the prescribed particulars with
respect to, the matters under Part I (Health (General Provisions))
and Part VIII. (Homework) of this Act which are administered by