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OUTWORKERS AND "HOME" WORKERS.
The provisions of the Act relating to Outworkers were carried out as heretofore,
and the lists of the namefe and addresses of Outworkers receiving work from the City
firms were duly received without the necessity of legal proceedings.
Employers of Outworkers in the City of London were provided with a copy of
the " prescribed " form which is required to be used in connection with the transmission
of the names and addresses, &c.
This was accompanied by a covering letter directing the attention of such employers
to their obligations in respect of Outworkers.
Considerable difficulty has been experienced in the past in getting firms to transmit
these lists with regularity. In the majority of cases it was due to oversight and
perhaps also to the trouble which was involved in obtaining copies of the prescribed form.
The letter acts as a reminder and the supply of the form saves trouble, so that now
very little excuse is available for failure to notify the Sanitary Authority with
promptitude. As a matter of fact the assistance of the Corporation in this respect has
been appreciated, and has resulted in greater uniformity being observed as regards the
particulars supplied, and in considerably less delay in transmitting the particulars, a
matter of no small importance when it is remembered that during the year over 16,000
names and certain other details have been transmitted to different Local Authorities.
In a number of cases employers neglect to keep lists at their premises and to
send copies of the same to the Corporation as required by the Act. Notice in each case
was served upon the offender and in all cases complied with.
No case of infectious disease was reported in connection with premises occupied
by Outworkers in the City. In 10 cases "contacts" were notified as follows:—
Chicken-pox, 1; Diphtheria, 1; Scarlet Fever, 8. The necessary enquiries were made
in each case and all precautions taken.