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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

* If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column I, and subdivides his list in such a way as to show the number of workers
in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be) against the principal class only, but the outworkers should
be assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes. A footnote should be added to show that this has been done.
† The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those employers who comply strictly with the statutory duty of
sending two lists each year and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. The entries in column 2 must necessarily be even numbers, as there will
be two lists for each employer—in some previous returns odd numbers have been inserted. The figures in columns 3 and 4 will usually be (approximately)
double of the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's name
will often be repeated.
§ In view of the wide discrepancies found to exist between the totals in the two columns when the returns are added together, it is desired that care
may be taken to give exact figures. Only those addresses should be counted which have actually been received from or forwarded to other Councils during
the year covered by the report.