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notices were not required. The following is an abstract of the sanitary work carried
out to comnlv with these notices:—
Premises cleansed throughout 97
partially 82
Number of rooms cleansed 290
Walls, floors, sashes, etc., repaired
88
Light and ventilation improved 3
Roofs, guttering, etc., repaired 107
Overcrowding abated —
Water reinstated or improved 4
Drains newly constructed 1
„ reconstructed 6
,, repaired, etc. 18
,, obstructions removed 19
Urinals cleansed, etc. 8
Soil and vent pipes dealt with 11
Water-closets newly constructed 2
,, repaired, etc. 213
,, obstructions
removed 30
Sinks, etc., cleansed and repaired
11
Sink traps provided 2
Sculleries, yards, etc., paving
repaired 8
Sculleries, yards, etc., cleansed
or limewashed 113
Dust receptacles provided 25
Foul accumulations removed 31
The number of factories under observation for insanitary conditions during the
year was 52, and in connection with them some 52 sanitary notices were served.
The work carried out to comply with these notices included the cleansing and repairing
of water-closets in 34 instances, the removal of obstructions from drains and waterclosets
in 30 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 80 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 41 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 940 out-workers, of whom 681 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 1,511 out-workers, and of these 11 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 1926.
The number of out-workers reported was 2,451 and of these some 1,780 were
residents in Shoreditch. These figures are above the average for the past five
years, but they show a decrease as compared with those for 1925.
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