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3.— HOME S WORK.
NATURE OF WORK. *
Lists, †
OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107.
Notices served on
Occupiers as to
keeping or
sending Lists.
OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME
PREMISES, SECTION 108.
OUTWORK IN INFECTED
PREMISES, 8ECTIONS 109,110.
Lists received from Employers.
Prosecutions.
Sending twice in the year.
Sending once in the year.
Failing to
keep or
permit
inspection
of lists.
Failing
to send
lists.
Instances.
Notices
served.
Prosecutions.
Instances.
Orders
made
(S. 110).
Prosecutions
(Sections
109, 110)
Outworkers. †
Lists.
Outworkers.
(1)
(2)
Contractors.
(3)
Workmen.
(4)
(5)
Contractors.
(6)
Workmen.
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(11)
(14)
(15)
(16)
Wearing Apparel—
(1) making, &c.
(2) cleaning and washing
1,304
2,658
12,384
66
72
286
Household linen
2
6
Lace, Lace Curtains and Nets
4
• • •
11
1
...
8
Curtains and furniture hangings
8
...
118
Furniture and Upholstery
2
...
14
Electro Plate
File making
Brass and brass articles
Fur pulling
Cables and Chains
50
174
229
2
1
6
Anchors and Grapnels
Cart Gear
Locks, Latches and Keys
Umbrellas, &c.
Artificial Flowers
50
11
534
3
1
7
Nets, other than Wire Nets
14
35
258
3
...
34
Tents
Sacks
Racquet and Tennis Balls
Paper Bags and Boxes
Brush making
2
4
Pea picking
4
...
38
Feather sorting
Carding, &c., of Buttons, &c.
Stuffed Toys
Basket making
Total
1,440
2,882
13,542
75
74
341
2,059
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
Nil.
* If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1, and subdivides his list in such a way as to show the
class only, but the outworkers should be assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes. A footnote should be added
† The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those employers who comply strictly with the
be even numbers, as there will be two lists for each employer—in some previous returns odd numbers have been inserted. The figures in
and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's name will often be repeated.
number of workers in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 5 as the case may be) against the principal
to show that this has been done.
statutory duty of sending two lists each year and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists, The entries in column 2 must necessarily
columns 3 and 4 will usually be (approximately) double of the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February
4.— REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.
Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of the year.
Number.
(1)
(2)
Important classes of workshops,
such as workshop
bakehouses, may be enumerated
here.
General Workshops
3,802
Workshop Bakehouses (including six Factory Bakehouses)
28
Total number of Workshops on Register
\
3,830
5.—OTHER MATTERS.
Class
Number.
(1)
(2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133)
113
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector
as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but
not under the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 5)
Notified by H.M. Inspector
38
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M.
Inspector
38
Other
37
Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year
None.
In use at the end of the year
22
Note.—The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (S. 132), requires the Medical Officer of Health in his Annual Iieport to the District
much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State (Home Office). If the Annual Report is presented otherwise than in print, it is
or homework. The duties of Local Authorities and the Medical Officer of Health under the Act of 1901 are detailed in the Home Office
Councils and Medical Officers of Health in October, 1906.
Dated 31st December, 1911.
(Signature) W. COLLINGRIDGE, Medical Officer of Health,
Council to report specifically on the administration of that Act in workshops and workplaces, and to send a copy of his Annual Report, or so
nnnecessarv to include in the copy sent to the Home Office the portions which do not relate to factories, workshops, workplaces,
Memorandum of December, 1904. A further Memorandum, on the Home Work Provisions of the Factory Act was issued to all District