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St Pancras 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Part VIII of the Act.
Outworkers.
In certain industries specified in the Act, if work is given out by employers or contractors
to be done by workers in their own homes, lists containing the names and addresses of such
workers must be forwarded to the Local Authority, with the object of preventing work being
carried out in premises which are insanitary or in which infectious disease is present.
The following table gives the number of such premises in the borough, and the nature of the work carried out:—
| Wearing apparel | 375 |
| Household linen | 27 |
| Lace, lace curtains and nets | 7 |
| Curtains and furniture hangings | 4 |
| Furniture and upholstery | 11 |
| Electro-plate | 7 |
| Fur pulling | 12 |
| Artificial flowers | 24 |
| The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or partially of paper | 17 |
| Brush making | 2 |
| Feather sorting | 19 |
| Carding, etc., of buttons, etc. | 11 |
| Basket making | 9 |
| Cosaques, Christmas crackers, Christmas stockings, etc. | 25 |
| Lampshades | 23 |
| Total | 573 |
Informal action was taken in twelve cases of default in sending lists to the Council, and
in eleven cases of work in unwholesome premises, resulting in the defaults and defects being
remedied.
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951.
This Act came into force on the 1st November, 1951, and requires inter alia
(a) the registration of premises where specified filling materials are used in
manufacturing bedding, toys, baby carriages and other articles of upholstery, and
(b) the annual licensing of premises where rag flock is (i) manufactured, or
(ii) stored for distribution to registered premises.
It is an Act to secure the use of clean filling materials in upholstered articles and other articles
which are stuffed or lined.
Sixteen certificates of registration were issued up to the end of the year.