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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 114 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 58 in the first and 56 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 1,657 out-workers, of whom 1,292 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 2,435 out-workers, and of these 53 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 1915.
The number of out-workers reported was 4,(192, of whom 2,800 were residents
in Shoreditch.
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 out-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 1,989 visits of inspection were made to places where
homework was being carried on, and sanitary notices were served in 148 instances.
The work carried out to comply with these notices included the disconnection of
sink waste pipes in 5 instances, the reinstatement of stack pipes in 18, of eaves
gutters in 18; various works in connection with the water-closet accommodation
in 33, with the water supply in 11 ; the cleansing of 183 rooms, 26 yards, 5 areas,
and 29 water-closets; the repair of roofs in 51, floors in 17, stairs in 2, sashes in 12,
and doors in 10 instances, and the provision of 32 dust receptacles besides other
work. In 3 instances overcrowding was found, in 10 cases the rooms required to
be dealt with on account of vermin, in 18 instances drains were repaired, and in
11 instances accumulations of sewage were dealt with.
Some 16 cases of notifiable infectious disease occurred at out-workers' premises.
The necessary steps were taken. In connection with the out-workers' lists it was
necessary to write to employers in 5 instances by reason of delay in sending in