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"During the year, the report of the working party on the Recruitment,
Training and Qualification of Sanitary Inspectors was published,
and implementation of this is now awaited."
Outworkers
Under section 110 of the Factories Act, 1937 the occupier of every
factory and every contractor employed by him must keep lists showing
the names and addresses of all outworkers directly employed by him and
of the places where they are employed, and must send to the district
council in February and in August of each year, copies of those lists
showing all outworkers so employed by him during the preceding six
months.
Section 111 of the same Act empowers the district council by notice
in writing to the occupier of a factory or to any contractor employed by
him to prohibit the employment of any persons as home workers in
premises which the council regard as injurious or dangerous to health.
The Home Work Order, 1911, specified the kinds of work to which
these two sections apply. The types of work consist mainly of wearing
apparel and various textiles, the making of paper bags, boxes, brushes,
baskets, artificial flowers, metal fittings, etc.
Outworkers were visited periodically by the woman sanitary
inspector.
The following is a list of trades concerned, extracted from the
August, 1953 lists received :—
Trade Ou tworkers
employed
Wearing apparel 207
Umbrellas 1
Artificial flowers 1
Boxmaking 13
Carding, etc., of buttons 1
Stuffed toys 2
Paper bags 1
Lampshades 2
Textile weaving 1
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The inspectors made 469 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 outworkers were prepared to restart work when
required. Reports were submitted to the Council at the end of the
first six months and again at the end of the year setting out the position
with regard to outworkers in the borough.
At the end of June one premises in the West division had been
noted in which cleanliness was only very fair and sanitary accommodation
fair. In no case was adverse comment called for in the North division
but in one case where previously cleanliness had been reported as only