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It may also be added that in 13 instances nuisances owing to flooding with
sewage had to be dealt with, in 3 cases overcrowding, and in 1 case owing to rats
infesting the premises.
In 38 instances statutory notices were served under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, by order of the Health Committee, but the necessity for police
court proceedings did not arise.
The number of factories under observation during the year was 25, and in
connection with them some 25 sanitary notices were served. The works carried
out to comply with these notices included the construction, reconstruction or repair
of drains in 5 instances, the disconnection of stack pipes in 6, of sink waste pipes
in 23, the repair of water closets in 18, the construction of new water-closets in 6,
and new urinals in 3 instances, besides a number of other items connected with
cleansing and repairing. Limewashing of factories in accordance with the requirements
of the Factory and Workshop Act is a matter with which the Factory
Inspectors deal. Defects in connection with the sanitary arrangements in factories
come within the province of the Sanitary Authority.
During the year 107 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 54 in the first and 53 in the second half-year. Those for the first halfyear
are due in February, for the second in August. These lists contained the
names of 1,604 out-workers, of whom 1,127 were not residents in Shoreditch. The
addresses of those non-resident were forwarded to the sanitary authorities of the
districts to which they belonged. Communications were received from various
sanitary authorities relating to some 2,378 out-workers, and of these 85 were residents
in other Boroughs, and their addresses were duly forwarded to the authorities
concerned. A table is given in the Appendix showing the numbers of addresses of
out-workers received from the sanitary authorities referred to during 1914.
The number of out-workers brought to our notice during 1914 was 3,982, as
compared with 3,932 in 1913, 4,251 in 1912, 4,325 in 1911, 4,785 in 1910, 4,781 in
1909, 4,185 in 1908, 4,578 in 1907, and 2,975 in 1906. Of the number for 1914,
some 2,581 were residents in Shoreditch, as compared with 2,703 in 1913, 2,837 in
1912, 2,977 in 1911, 3,333 in 1910, 3,401 in 1909, 2,985 in 1908, 3,431 in 1907 and
2,259 in 1906. As pointed out in previous reports in numerous instances names and
addresses of out-workers are duplicated owing to lists being sent in twice a year,
and in some cases the same out-workers are employed by more than one firm,
so that the numbers given above must not be taken as representing the actual
numbers of individual out-workers. Tables are appended showing the distribution
of cut-workers as regards trades in the Borough. Most of them are engaged
in work connected with the making of wearing apparel, artificial flowers, paper
bags and boxes, and brushes.
During the year some 2,141 visits of inspection were made to places where
homework was being carried on, and sanitary notices were served in 156 instances.