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WORKSHOPS SUPERVISION.
Canal Boats.—The annual report of the Examining Officer was submitted to the Council
and forwarded to the Local Government Board in February last. Forty-nine (49) breaches of
the Acts were discovered last year. Two summonses were issued, but at the end of the year
the cases had not been disposed of. There are 158 boats on the Register (none added during
the past year), but actually only 39 boats are known to be working in and out of the Borough.
No cases of infectious disease were reported on the boats during the year, but 4 cases of
diarrhoea are known to have occurred among the children, one ending fatally. The deaths
among the boat population, registered in Paddington, numbered 5, viz.: —
Male 8 months, of diarrhoea (in Park Hospital).
Male 69 years, of cancer (in Infirmary).
Male 48 years, of asthma (in St. Mary's Hospital).
Female 11 years, of measles (in Convent Hospital, Shoreditch).
Female 39 years, drowned, accidental.
WORKSHOPS SUPERVISION.
This part of the report is compiled in pursuance of Section 132 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901, which requires a medical officer of health to "report specifically" on
the administration of the Act within his district. The information here given is in the form
prescribed by Memorandum of the Home Office, that Office also requiring a special table,
Table X., Appendix A.
Registration.—At the close of 1910 there were 1,508 workshop premises on the Register of
the Department. Last year 176 premises were removed from the Register and 176 added to
it, leaving 1,508 effective entries at the close of the year. The premises then on the Register
included 127 factories, 32 of them being laundries, 1,023 workshops, 29 domestic workshops,
60 workplaces, and 269 premises in the occupation of " single workers," 273 of whom were on
the Register of Outworkers. An analysis of the occupations carried on at the premises (of
all descriptions), with the latest known numbers of persons working therein, will be found in
Table 45, the numbers of outworkers being shown by the figures in parentheses.
Women were employed in 1,031 workshops, including 212 where men and women were
employed. The total number of female workers therein was 5,883, including 761 young persons.
Women were employed at 295 outworkers' premises, including 23 where men and women were
employed. The total number of female workers employed therein was 442, including 73 young
persons.
Notices relating to 60 new workshops were received from the Home Office during the year,
52 of which were already on the Registers of the Department.
Home Work.—Employers of outworkers (home workers) forwarded 67 lists in February
of last year and 58 in August, or a total of 125 lists, as compared with 154 in 1910, 177 in 1909,
and 150 in 1908. The addresses included in those lists numbered 541, of which 354 were
forwarded to other districts, where the homeworkers resided, in accordance with the Act. From
other districts 297 addresses (in 51 lists) of homeworkers residing in the Borough were received,
the number received in 1910 having been 28 in 44 lists. The numbers of lists received from
other districts last year are shown below.
Kensington 9 (7) City of London 10 (4) Chelsea 2 (2)
Hampstead 3 (4) Bethnal Green 2 (J) Lambeth 1 (3)
Westminster 4 (5) Willesden 3 (4) Hammersmith 3 (0)
Finsbury 4 (4) Marylebone 4 (4) Shoreditch 1 (0)
Uxbridge 2 (0 Holborn 2 (2) St. Pancras 1 (0)
Note.—Figures in parentheses are the numbers for 1910.