London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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there being no means of warming the air as it entered. Eventually the
use of the workroom was given up.
Outworkers.—Firms giving out work in certain trades are required
to send in a list twice a year of those they employ. Outworkers
are constantly changing their addresses and their employers, so that
it is difficult to maintain a correct register. Less trouble has been
experienced in getting in the lists since the Council adopted the plan
of sending a printed form to all known or likely employers to be filled
up by them; in addition 36 visits of enquiry to ascertain if outworkers
were employed were made by the women inspectors.
They were distributed thus:—
| Council. | Sen l from YVeslminster. | Received by Westminster. | Council. | Sent from Westminster. | Received by Westminster. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. | Auk. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | ||
| Acton | 9 | 5 | - | Islington | 52 | 61 | 1 | ||
| Battersea | 73 | 69 | 2 | 2 | Kensington | 58 | 54 | 30 | 39 |
| Bedfont | 1 | 1 | — | - | Kingston.on.Thames | 1 | 1 | - | — |
| Bedford | 1 | 1 | — | - | Lambeth | 55 | 58 | 8 | 2 |
| Bermondsey | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | Langley | 1 | — | — | — |
| Betlmal Green | 10 | 11 | — | - | Lewisham | 7 | 5 | 2 | |
| Broadstairs | 1 | 1 | — | - | Leyton | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Bromley | 1 | 1 | — | — | New Maiden | 3 | 3 | — | — |
| Camberwell | 39 | 37 | — | - | Northampton | 5 | 5 | — | |
| Chelsea | 20 | 25 | 36 | 44 | Paddington | 138 | 141 | 31 | 11 |
| Chichester | 1 | 1 | — | Perth | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Chipping Sodbury | 1 | 1 | — | Richmond | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| Chiswick | 3 | 3 | — | St. Leonards.on.Sea | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| City of London | 20 | 20 | 28 | 37 | St. Marylebone | 757 | 761 | 57 | 51 |
| Croydon | 6 | 6 | - | — | St. Pancras | 225 | 229 | 9 | 1 |
| Ealing | 4 | 4 | — | — | Shoreditch | 10 | 12 | — | — |
| East Ham | 2 | 2 | — | — | Southend | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Edmonton | 2 | 2 | — | — | Southwark | 36 | 37 | 2 | 2 |
| Enfield | 1 | 1 | — | — | Stepney | 121 | 134 | 1 | 1 |
| Farnborough | 3 | 3 | — | — | Stoke Newington | 6 | 6 | — | — |
| Finchley | 3 | 3 | — | — | Tottenham | 8 | 8 | — | |
| Emsbury | 8 | 8 | 6 | 13 | Walthamstow | 4 | 4 | — | — |
| Fulham | 58 | 53 | — | — | Wandsworth. | 64 | 6S | 9 | 1 |
| Hackney | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1 | Watford | 1 | — | — | — |
| Hammersmith | 64. | 68 | — | — | Wealdstone | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Hampstead | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | Wembley | 1 | — | — | — |
| Hanwell | 1 | 1 | — | — | West Ham | 7 | 6 | — | — |
| Harrow | 3 | 3 | — | — | Weymouth | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Holborn | 122 | 133 | 34 | 35 | Willesden | 52 | 56 | - | 1 |
| Hornsey | — | — | — | 1 | Wimbledon | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Horsham | 1 | 1 | — | — | |||||
| Ilford | 1 | 1 | — | — | |||||
| Isle of Wight | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2,110 | 2,159 | 260 | 250 | |