Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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OUT WORKERS.
The work commenced by the Female Inspector in 1903
and continued since, connected with the visiting and
inspecting of out-workers' premises and homes (situated
within the Borough of Lambeth), has been further continued
during 1910.
There is a special duty devolving upon the Borough Council
under Sections 107-110 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, under which Orders (known as the Home-work
Orders) have been made by the Home Secretary (vide
Annual Reports, 1903, pp. 118-122 and 1903 pp. 125-126).
The latest Order is 1907 (May 23rd), replacing the Order
of August l5th, 1905, and enlarging the list of special
trades to which Sections 107-110 of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1901, apply, by the addition of the following:
Artificial flowers, nets, other than wire nets; tents; sacks;
covering of racquet or tennis balls; boxes of cardboard,
ship, or similar material; pea-picking; feather-sorting; the
carding, boxing, or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes,
pins and hair-pins; and baskets.
During 1903-10, a total of 1412 new out-workers premises have been notified under the Home-work Orders, inspected and registered (215 during 1910), connected with the following trades and businesses:—
1903–4. | 1905. | 1906–7. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mantles | 18 | 20 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 9 |
Blouses and Skirts | 24 | 24 | 43 | 22 | 31 | 27 |
Ties and Belts and Braces | 43 | 14 | 28 | 15 | 31 | 20 |
Babv Clothing | 10 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | – |
Children's Underclothing and Costumes | 15 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 5 |