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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
Islington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]
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| Total number at the beginning of the year | 2,493 |
| „ „ added during the period under report | 594 |
| Less removals „ ,, ,, | 285 |
| Total number now registered | 2,802 |
| Notifications received to date from employers in the Borough of Islington | 2,560 |
| Do. do. from other districts, per the Medical Officer of Health | 2,746 |
| Total number notified | 5,306 |
| Notices served for statutory defects | *26 |
| Disinfection ot workrooms and work | 24 |
| * Including 2 cases of tuberculosis. | |
| To employers failing to supply lists | 417 |
| Notification of outworkers to other districts | 1,228 |
| Workshop cards specifying cubic space of workrooms | 119 |
| Notifications to H.M. Inspector of Factories | 20 |
| Making of wearing apparel | 2,256 |
| Artificial flower making | 198 |
| Furniture and upholstery | 3 |
| Paper bags and boxes | 189 |
| Brush making | 120 |
| Stuffed toys | 6 |
| Electro plate | 6 |
| Umbrellas | 18 |
| Chair making | 6 |
| 2,802 |
At the North London Police Court on July the 26th the occupier of 35, Seven Sisters
Road, was summoned under Sec. 107, Factory and Workshop Act (1901), for (a) failing to
keep the prescribed list of outworkers, and (i)failing to notify the same to the Medical Officer
of Health. A penalty of 21s. with 23s. costs on the first count, and 10s. with 23s. costs on
the second was inflicted in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
The general conditions under which homework is carried on are, in Islington, surprisingly
satisfactory in view of the rates of wages paid. If it takes a woman fourteen
hours a day, working six days a week to earn a mere subsistance, the performance of any
additional duties on her part becomes an act of heroism.