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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Shoreditch 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: 3. Home Work.

3. Home Work.

NATURE OF WORK.OUTWORKERS LISTS, SECTION 107.Outwork in unwholesome premises, Section 108.Outwork in infected premises. Sections 109 and 110.
Lists received from Employers.Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending Lists.Prosecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.Instances.Orders made. (S. 109.)Prosecutions. (S.109, 110.)
Twice in the Year.Once in the Year.Failing to keep or permit inspection of Lists.Failing to send Lists.
Lists.Outworkers.Lists.Outworkers.
Con- Work-tractors. men.Contractors.Workmen.
(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)
Wearing Apparel: (1) Making, &c.70671,0763...37.........5355...17......
(2) Cleaning & washing.............................................
Furniture and upholstery2...61...3.........44............
Artificial flowers.........2...47.........66...3......
Fur pulling2...8....................................
Umbrellas, &c............................55...2......
Paper bags and boxes30...425..................2020...5......
Brush making...........................66...1......
Total104671,5156...87.........9496...28......

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(a) There were no names and addresses of outworkers received in respect to the following classes of work : Sacks, basket
making, mats other than wire nets, racquet and tennis balls, stuffed toys, file making, electro plate, cables and chains, anchors and
grapnels, cart gear, locks, latches and keys, pea picking, household linen, lace, lace curtains and nets, curtains and furniture
hangings, brass and brass articles, tents, feather sorting, and carding, &c., of buttons.
(b) The figures in columns 2, 3, and 4 are the total number of lists received from employers who sent them both for February
and August, and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. They are therefore double the number of employers and
approximately double the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the
same employers, the same outworker's name will often be repeated.
(c) There were no prosecutions, but lettex-s were sent to employers in 24 instances of failure to send lists of outworkers
employed in making wearing apparel, &c., in 20 instances for similar failures in respect to paper bag and box making, in 1 instance
in respect to artificial flowers, and 1 in respect to cabinet making.