Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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" The making of nets other than wire nets;
" The making of tents ;
" The making or repairing of sacks ;
" The covering of racquet or tennis balls;
" The making of paper bags ;
" The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or
" partially of paper, cardboard, chip or other similar material.
" The making of brushes ;
" Pea picking ;
" Feather sorting;
" The carding, boxing or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and hair
" pins ;
" The making of stuffed toys ;
" The making of baskets;
" And any processes incidental to the above.
" II.—Section 110 (relating to the prohibition of home work in places where
" there is infectious disease) shall apply to the following classes of work :—
" The making, cleaning, washing, altering, ornamenting, finishing and repair"
ing of wearing apparel and any work incidental thereto (as in the said
" section specified) :—
" The making, ornamenting, mending and finishing of lace and of lace curtains
" and nets.
' Upholstery work ;
" Fur-pulling;
" The making or repairing of umbrellas, sunshades, parasols and parts thereof ;
" The making of artificial flowers ;
" The making of nets other than wire nets ;
" The making of tents ;
" The making or repairing of sacks ;
" The covering of racquet or tennis balls;
" The making of paper bags;
" The making of boxes or other receptacles or parts thereof made wholly or
" partially of paper, cardhoard, chip or similar material ;
" The making of brushes.
" Pea picking ;
" Feather sorting ;
*l The carding, boxing or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and hair
" pins;
u The making of stuffed toys ;
" The making of baskets ;
*' And any processes incidental to the above.