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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all, 124 lists were received twice in the year, containing
the names and addresses of 82 contractors and 349 workmen and
eight lists once in the year, containing the names and addresses of
three contractors and 22 workmen. There has been a slight increase
in the number of outworkers employed by employers in the Borough
during the year.
The total number of addresses received from other Councils
was 511, compared with 408 in 1911, 422 in 1910, and 370 in 1909,
and 285 addresses were forwarded to other Councils, compared
with 251 in 1911, 253 in 1910, and 334 in 1909. The number
of addresses received has increased by 103 and the number sent by 34.
The following are the districts to which lists of outworkers
were forwarded, and also the number of outworkers:—Lambeth
63, Battersea 53, Stepney 43, Fulham 20, City 19, Croydon 11,
Southwark 10, Camberwell eight, Bermondsey and Hammersmith
six each, Merton five, Chelsea four, St. Pancras, Stratford, Holborn
and Eastleigh three each, Hanwell, Westminster, East Ham,
Winchester, Wimbledon, Willesden, Worthing, Finsbury and
Lewisham two each, Rochford, Southgate, Islington, Shoreditch
Barnes, Hove and Greenwich one each.
63 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
76, compared with 76 in 1911, and these has a most satisfactory
result.
At the end of 1911 there were 312 outworkers' premises on
the Register, 108 were added and 85 removed during the year,
leaving 335 on the Register at the end of 1912.
461 inspections were made of these premises during the year,
and 28 notices, all for cleansing, were served and complied with.
During the year 16 cases of infective diseases, five of Scarlet
Fever, two of Diphtheria, six of Erysipelas, one of Enteric Fever,