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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 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: 3.—Home Work—1925.

3.—Home Work—1925.

NATURE OF WORK. (1)OUTWORKERS- LISTS, SECTION 107.Outwork in unwholesome premises. Section 108.Outwork in infected premises, Sections 10i) and 110.
Lists received from Employers.Notices served on Occupiers as to keeping or sending Lists. (8)Prosecutions.Instances. (IllNotices served. (12)Prosecutions. (131Instances. (14)Orders made. (S. 109.) | (15)Prosecutions. (S. 100, 110.1 (16)
Twice in the Year.Once in the Year.Failing to keep or permit inspection of Lists. 19)Failing to send Lists. (10)
Lists. (2)Outworkers.Lists. (5)Outworkers.
Contractors. (3)Work-men. (4)Contractors.Work-men. (7)
Wearing apparel:— (1) Making, &c.32225557434.........4949...251...
(2) Cleaning and washing................................................
Furniture and upholstery.............................................
Artificial flowers.........2...43.........44...4......
Fur pulling.............................................
Umbrellas...........................44...1......
Paper bags and boxes18...2361...3.........3737...2......
Brush making..............................22............
Wire Netting ..............................11............
Totals ......502279110480.........9797...32......

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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 workers whose names are given, since in the February and August lists of the same employers, the
same outworker's name will often be repeated.