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it is difficult to maintain a correct register. Visits of enquiry to
ascertain if outworkers were employed were made by the lady sanitary
inspectors.
On the 23rd May the Home Secretary further extended the number
of classes of work to which the Act applies. They are now :—
(а) The making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing,
and repairing of wearing apparel.
(б) 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 eleclro-plate.
(e) The making of files.
(/) 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 or repairing of umbrellas, sunshades, parasols, or
parts thereof.
(l) The making of artificial flowers.
(m) The making of nets other than wire nets.
(n) The making of tents.
(o) The making or repairing of sacks.
(p) The covering of racquet or tennis balls.
(q) The making of paper bags.
(r) The making of boxes or other receptacles, or parts thereof,
made wholly or partially of paper, cardboard, chip, or
similar material.
(s) The making of brushes.
(t) Pea-picking.
(u) Feather-sorting.
(v) The carding, boxing, or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes,
pins and hair-pins.
(w) The making of stuffed toys.
(x) The making of baskets and any processes incidental to the
above.
Section 110 (relating to the prohibition of home work in places
where there is infectious disease) applies to the above except (d), (e),
(g),(h) (i) and (j).
Employers are expected to keep a list of outworkers in a form
specified by the Order, but it is seldom so kept. Considerable trouble is