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After adjusting the lists, it appears that the actual number of outworkers
resident in Westminster is 1,249 (in 1920 the number was
1,325); this is less than the apparent number shown on the accompanying
table, as more than one employer may send work to the same person.
908 are persons having workshops. The number of houses in which
out-work is carried on was 779. These premises have been visited
specially by the woman sanitary inspector, and also by the male
inspectors in the course of their ordinary work. Defects relating to
cleansing of walls or defective or insufficient W.C. accommodation,
unventilated gas heaters, dirty floors, presence of bugs, &c., were found
and amended in a number of instances. No prosecutions were taken for
doing outwork in unwholesome premises (Sec. 108) or in infected premises
(Sec. 109, 110).