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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all, 116 lists were received twice in the year, containing
the names and addresses of 60 contractors and 349 workmen and
seven lists once in the year, containing the names and addresses of
three contractors and 62 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 507, compared with 521 in 1913, 511 in 1912, and 408 in 1911,
and 290 addresses were forwarded to other Councils, compared
with 276 in 1913, 285 in 1912, and 251 in 1911. The number
of addresses received has decreased by 14 and the number sent has
increased by 14.
The following are the districts to which lists of outworkers
were forwarded, and also the number of outworkers Stepney 56,
Battersea 54, Lambeth 46, Croydon 21, City 17, Hammersmith eight,
Camberwell six, Southwark five, Winchester and Chelsea four each,
Southwark and Kensington three each, Holborn, Worthing, Wimbledon,
Hanwell, Eastleigh, East Ham, Willesden, Rochford, Southgate,
East Ashford, Shoreditch, Lewisham, Finsbury, Deptford, Stratford,
Bermondsey and Bethnal Green two each, West Ham, Walthamstow,
Barnes, Stoke Newington, Hampstead, St. Pancras and Bexley
one each.
39 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
61, compared with 76 in 1913, and these had a most satisfactory
result.
At the end of 1913 there were 361 outworkers' premises on
the Register, 123 were added and 133 removed during the year,
leaving 351 on the Reigster at the end of 1914.
541 inspections were made of these premises during the year,
and 21 notices, all for cleansing, were served and complied with,