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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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| Class. | Number. |
|---|---|
| Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories :— | |
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act | 124 |
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts but not under the Factory and Workshop Act— | |
| Notified by H.M. Inspector | 91 |
| Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors | 91 |
| Other | 3 |
| Workrooms measured | 297 |
| Underground bakehouses— | |
| Certificates granted during the year | — |
| refused ,, | — |
| In use at the end of the year | 68 |
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. Forty notices were sent to employers for failing to send
in lists, but no prosecutions were undertaken; in addition 318 visits of
enquiry to ascertain if outworkers were employed were made by the
women inspectors.
The accompanying table gives the details ot the returns made in
Westminster in 1912. 695 lists, containing 9,221 names and addresses,
were sent in by employers; 4,663 addresses were sent to other local
authorities in whose jurisdiction lived persons to whom work, chiefly
tailoring, is sent from Westminster to be done in other boroughs; 443
addresses were received of persons in Westminster taking in work from
other boroughs. They were distributed thus:—