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tion in 2, defective wall in 1, accumulation of rubbish in 1, no w.c. accommodation
in 2, and in one instance attention was directed to the unfitness of premises upon
which food was being stored.

The number of factories under observation for insanitary conditions during the
year was 37, and in connection with them some 37 sanitary notices were served.
The work carried out to comply with these notices included the cleansing and repairing
of water-closets in 26 instances, the provision of new drains in 1, the construction
of a new water-closet in 3, the removal of obstructions from drains and waterclosets
in 3 instances, besides several other matters. Limewashing of factories can
only legally be dealt with by the factory inspector, but defects in connection with
the sanitary arrangements in factories are matters within the province of the sanitary
authority.
During the year 77 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 38 in the first and 39 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 1,167 out-workers, of whom 896 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 1,679 out-workers, and of these 47 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 1922.
The number of out-workers reported was 2,846 and of these some 1,903 were
residents in Shoreditch. These figures, although below the average for the past
five years, show an increase as compared with those for 1921.