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Outworkers
Outworkers are visited periodically by the woman sanitary inspector.
The following is a list of trades concerned, extracted from the
August, 1951 lists received :—
No. of
Trade outworkers
employed
Wearing apparel 225
Curtains and furniture hangings 1
Umbrellas 1
Artificial flowers 1
Paper bags 1
Boxmaking 17
Brush making 1
Carding, etc. of buttons, etc. 1
Stuffed toys 1
Cosaques, Christmas crackers, Christmas
stockings, etc. 6
255
The inspector made 463 visits and revisits during the year, which
included some to places in which no work was being done at the time
of the visit, although the outworker was prepared to restart work
when required.
Uncleanliness and untidiness was noted in a few of the cases, but
in no instance was it found necessary to serve a statutory notice. If
the uncleanliness was of a moderately severe degree a revisit was paid
at an early date. The impression obtained by the inspector was that,
on the whole, only people with fairly good accommodation were doing
outwork, probably because there was so much other work for married
women if they want to earn money. Nearly all outworkers are seasonally
employed.
Dog Nuisances
The Council operates a byelaw to prevent the fouling of the public
footpath by dogs. The form of the byelaw is as follows :—
(1) No person being in charge of a dog in any street or public place having
the dog on a lead shall allow or permit such dog to deposit its
excrement upon the public footway.
(2) Any person offending against this byelaw shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding forty shillings.
Complaints are sometimes received from members of the public
and the police, but difficulty is experienced in enforcing the byelaw
owing to the fact that it only relates to dogs which are on a lead, and
possibly from the reluctance of witnesses to appear in court to give
evidence.