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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all, 152 lists were received twice in the year, containing
the names and addresses of 56 contractors and 612 workers, and
six lists once in the year, containing the names and addresses of
13 workers.
The total number of addresses received from other Councils
was 370, compared with 352 in 1908, 322 in 1907, and 173 in 1906,
and 334 addresses were forwarded to other Councils, compared
with 301 in 1908, 325 in 1907, and 122 in 1906.
The following- are the districts to which lists of outworkers
were forwarded, and also the number of outworkers : Battersea
85, Lambeth 69, Stepney 46, Fulham 15, Southwark 14, City of
London 10, Croydon and Merton nine each, Camberwell eight,
East Ham and Chelsea six each, Hammersmith and Islington five
each, Bermondsey, Westminster, St. Pancras and Bethnal Green
four each, Ilford, Stratford and Poplar three each, Stoke Newington,
Woolwich, Chiswick, Willesden, Shoreditch and Southampton
two each, Hampstead, Hackney, Lewisham, Finsbury, Wimbledon,
Holborn, Twickenham, Bromley, Surbiton and Hove one
each.
99 names and addresses were forwarded to this Borough in
error and are not included in the above Table.
The number of notices sent to employers during the year was
.27, and these had a most satisfactory result, although in some
ases it was also necessary for the Inspector to call and warn
them that if such lists were not sent proceedings would be taken.
At the end of 1908 there were 331 outworkers' premises on
the Register, 99 were added and 118 removed during the year,
leaving 312 on the Register.
446 inspections were made of these premises during the year,
and 41 notices, all for cleansing, were served and complied with.
During the year only six cases of infectious disease, four of
Scarlet Fever and two of Diphtheria, were notified as having
occurred in the homes of outworkers, compared with 22 in 1908,
six in 1907, six in 1906, and five in 1905.