View report page

The foregoing only relates to the work carried out in connection with factories,
and in the workshops and workplaces on the register. In the great majority of instances
the work required was performed upon the receipt of official intimations from
the sanitary inspectors. In 24 cases it was necessary for the Health Committee to
order the service of statutory notices under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
upon the parties responsible, whereupon what was required was done, and it was not
necessary in any instance to appeal to a magistrate.
With respect to home work, 31 lists of outworkers were received from employers in
Shoreditch, 19 during the first half-year, and 12 in the second. These lists referred to
629 outworkers, of whom 494 were not resident in Shoreditch, and their addresses
were forwarded to the authorities of the sanitary districts to which they belonged.
Communications were received from other sanitary authorities as to some 1,305 outworkers
who were residents in the Borough, and 98 who were residents of other sanitary
districts. The addresses of the latter were forwarded to the authorities concerned.
The number of outworkers brought to our notice during the year amounted
to 1,440, of whom 1,342 were residents of Shoreditch, and some 743 visits of inspection
were made to places where home work was carried on. The sanitary notices
served in connection with them numbered 94, and the works done in consequence
thereof included, amongst others, the construction or reconstruction of drains in 8
instances, the removal of other defects in the sanitary arrangements in 12 instances,
and the whitewashing and cleansing of 171 workrooms.