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The places where the outworkers are employed were all of them
inspected twice during the year, some more frequently.
See Miss Tattersall's report, pages 274 and 275 and the Sanitary
Inspectors' reports, pages 237-208.
For out workers connected with infectious cases, see pages 111 and 183.
* A special form is submitted by the Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health (see pages 182-185) in preparing the report
on factories and workshops in pursuance of Section 132 of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901.
In order that the form may be filled in without any difficulty from year
to year, the Sanitary Inspectors have been urgently requested to give full
and complete descriptions of the premises visited where any work is carried
on, and to classify such premises in their note books before handing them
to the clerks for the particulars to be entered in the journals, registers and
index files.
It can be easily understood that the classification of premises where
work is executed will vary from time to time, according to the pressure of
work or the nature of the work carried on—outworkers' premises may become
domestic workshops, and also workshops,* and even factories; workshops
may become factories; and workplaces may become workshops or factories,
between the visits of the Sanitary Inspectors.
Employment and Distress.
The following letter was forwarded to be dealt with by the Public
Health Department.
Intelligence Department,
(Copy.) Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.
10th September, 1914.
Dear Sir,
The Committee which has been appointed by the President of
the Local Government Board to collect information as to conditions
of employment and distress in the Metropolis
is desirous of obtaining information which is gathered by the
Medical Officer and his staff of inspectors and visitors on the
following matters: (a) the nutrition of children under school age
and how far it is affected by conditions arising out of the war ; (b)
unemployment or distress among home workers, especially in the
cabinet making and clothing trades.
* To wit, in Table A, under "Laundries, Domestic Workshops," there were 8 on
the register at the end of the year, but during the year, especially in the summer, some of
these premises were "Workshop Laundries," and the inspections would come under
Workshop Laundries.