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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The Table which follows has been slightly altered from the
Table in the Report for 1906, in that the outworkers are subdivided
into Contractors and Workers.
There has been a large increase in the number of lists and the
number of outworkers, this being due to the inclusion this year
of a large number of boot repairers and tailors working for retail
shops in the Borough.
In all 130 lists were received twice in the year, containing the
names and addresses of 45 contractors and 387 workers, and 18
lists once in the year, containing the names of one contractor and
44 workers.
The majority of those forwarding lists only once a year were
persons who did not employ outworkers during the six months
previous to February or previous to August.
The total number of addresses of outworkers received from
other Councils was 322, compared with 173 in 1906, and 146 in
1905, and 325 addresses were forwarded to other Councils, compared
with 122 in 1906, and 231 in 1905.
The following are the districts to which lists of outworkers
were forwarded, and also the number of outworkers :—Lambeth
76, Battersea 75, Stepney 53, Croydon 23, Camberwell 18, Southwark
11, Fulham and City of London 10 each, Chelsea six, Wimbledon,
Hammersmith and East Ham four each, Bermondsey, St.
Pancras, and Westminster three each, Basingstoke, Hackney,
Bethnal Green, Ilford, Stoke Newington, Finsbury, and Poplar
two each, and Shoreditch, Islington, Barnes, Coombe and Maiden,
Stratford, Chiswick, Merton and Hampstead, one each.
At the end of 1906 there were 233 outworkers' premises on
the Register, 127 were added and 70 removed during the year,
leaving 290 on the Register.
349 inspections were made of these premises during the year,
and 31 notices, all for cleansing, were served and complied with.
During the year six cases of infectious disease were notified
as having occurred in the homes of outworkers, compared with six
in 1906, and five in 1905.