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"2. Addresses of any outworkers in the lists who reside in other
districts should be communicated to the Councils of those districts.
" 3. Where insanitary conditions or dangerous infectious diseases
are found on outworkers' premises, action should be taken if
necessary under Sections 108, 109 and 110 of the Factory Act which
give power to the Council to prohibit outwork in such premises. For
this purpose outworkers' premises should be systematically visited.
"4. The annual report of the Medical Officer should be sent to
the Home Office.
"The Secretary of State trusts that if in the past any of these
duties have been imperfectly fulfilled in the Council's area, steps will be
taken to remedy the omission in future."
The Secretary of State forwarded with the letter a "Return (to an
address of the House of Commons) as to the administration in each
County and County Borough during 1904, by the Local Authorities, of
the Home Work Provisions, as shown by the reports of the Medical
Officers of Health sent to the Home Office, under Section 132 of the
Act," giving information on specified matters, including "the number of
outworkers' lists received by the Local Authority under Section 107, and
the number of outworkers shown by them."
A reference to the Home Work Return for 1904, accompanying the .
circular, shows that, with the exception of Westminster, the inspections
made in Poplar exceed those in any other London Borough, and that of
eight prosecutions in London in respect of failure to supply the necessary
lists of outworkers five were instituted by the Poplar Borough Council.
An occupier of a workshop was summoned for not keeping in the
workshop in the prescribed form and manner, and with the prescribed
particulars list showing the names and addresses of his outworkers. A
penalty of 10s. was inflicted, with 23s. costs.
HOME WORK REGULATION BILL.
The Home Work Regulation Bill is a Bill to provide the better
Regulation of Home Industries, presented by Mr. Ramsay Macdonald,
supported by Mr. Crooks and others, and was ordered by the House of
Commons to be printed 21st February, 1907.
The Bill provides that it shall not be lawful for any employer in and