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Outworkers' Premises.—There were 2,704 outworkers' premises registered,
or 98 less than in the preceding year, when there was an increase of
300 as compared with 1911.
The lists received from the employers in Islington contained the names
and addresses of 1,384 outworkers, in addition to which lists, received from
the Medical Officers of Health of other boroughs situated within and without
tht: County of London, contained similar information respecting 2,899 outworkers.
From the lists forwarded by local tradesmen, which for the most part are
obtained only after personal applications had been made for them, the
names of 613 pe'sons living outside Islington were abstracted and forwarded
to the Medical Officers of Health of other boroughs.
The failure of numerous employers to forward lists of their outworkers
lias caused very great inconvenience, and thrown much additional work on
the inspector, on whom devolves the duty of inspecting these homes, keeping
the records, and forwarding the names of the employees found on the local
lists of sanitary authorities. The law on this subject is very explicit, and
requires all persons who employ outworkers to send in their lists twice a year,
in February and in August; but of recent years the failures to comply with
it have largely increased. The refusal or failure to send these lists is a
punishable offence, which the Medical Officer of Health has hitherto passed
over, believing that a warning would be sufficient; but since such failures
have become so numerous, and are repeated again and again by the same
persons, he will be left no alternative in the future than to advise the sanitary
authority to prosecute the offenders.