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(a) The making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing,
and repairing of wearing apparel and any work incidental
thereto.
(b) The making, ornamenting, mending, and finishing of lace and of
lace curtains and nets.
(c) Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work.
(d) The making of electro-plate.
(e) The making of files.
(f) Fur-pulling.
(g) The making of iron and steel cables and chains.
(h) The making of iron and steel anchors and grapnels.
(i) The making of cart gear, including swivels, rings, loops, gear
buckles, mullin bits, hooks, and attachments of all kinds.
(j) The making of locks, latches, and keys.
(k) The making of covers for, and the covering, finishing, altering,
or repairing of, umbrellas, sunshades, parasols, and articles of
a similar character, and any work incidental thereto.
(l) The making of paper bags and of paper boxes.
(m) Brushmaking, and
(n) The making of stuffed toys.
A list must be kept in the form and with the particulars specified
in the factory or workshop or place from which the work is given out,
and must be open to inspection by H.M. Inspectors and the officers of
the local authority; and a copy of the list signed and dated and
corrected up to that date must be forwarded to the local authority of
the district on or before the first day of February and the first day of
August in each year.
Section 110 of the Factory Act, which prohibits home work in
places where there is infectious disease, applies to the above, with the
exception of (d), (e), (g), (A), (i), (j).
The following table gives particulars of the outworkers whose
addresses were received in 1906.
Considerable difficulty is experienced in obtaining these returns.
Notwithstanding that notices are published in the local and trade
newspapers, that notices are sent to employers, and visits of reminder
are paid by Inspectors, yet there is repeated failure on the part of
employers to send in the lists at the stated times. The Home Secretary
recently addressed a letter to Local Authorities to bring specially before
them the question of enforcement of the provisions of the Act which
deal with home work, that is, work in the manufacture, or repair, &c.
of articles of the kind specified above in the worker's own house.