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Domestic Workshops.—Among the names on the Outworkers' Lists
were 45 Domestic Workshops in St. Pancras District. I paid 65 visits to
these workshops, and found 33 were tailors, chiefly women, working alone at
waistcoat-making. The conditions on the whole were satisfactory.
The clerical work since July 11 has included:—
Compiling new Workshop Register.
„ new Factory Register.
„ Register of Public Elementary Schools (Girls and Infants).
„ Register of Domestic Workshops
„ Register of Shops.
Keeping posted up to date the Register of Laundries.
„ List of work places not employing hands.
„ List of Outworkers' names and adddresses received from
other Sanitary Authorities.
Sending notifications to H.M. Inspector of Factories—
(a) As to protected persons (33).
(b) As to non-affixing of abstracts and notices (3).
„ to other Sanitary Authorities.
,, as to names and addresses of out-workers employed
in St. Pancras but living and working in other districts (68).
In addition to keeping a Diary and other office work, I append a tabular
statement of the number of inspections and re-inspections made during the
year. *
I am, &c.,
A. J. Safford.
Sanitary Inspector of Workshops (Women).
"OUT-WORKERS."
The subject of "out-workers" was raised by the circular letter of the Vestry
of St. Mary, Battersea, dated 4th October, 1898.
The Battersea Vestry considered that arrangements should be made by which
they should be advised of the addresses of "out-workers" residing in the Parish
who, in consequence of working in a district other than that in which the work is
given out, sometimes escape the extra sanitary supervision necessary, and desired to
know the views of the Vestry as to an interchange of information relative to outworkers,
and whether the Vestry would be willing to co-operate in the matter.
To obtain a correct view of the position it is necessary to refer to the Order of
the Secretary of State as to out-workers, in the preamble to which Order the
sections of the Factory and Workshop Acts bearing upon out-workers are also
get out.
* These are included in the tabular statement at the commencement of the Section.