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The total number of out-workers reported was 2,407, and of these some 1,701
were residents in Shoreditch. These figures are below the average for the past
I've years, and show a decrease as compared with those for 1927.
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, umbrellas,
toys and crackers.
Some 821 visits of inspection were made to places where home-work was being
carried on, and in connection with these 77 sanitary notices were served. The
cases of notifiable infectious disease occurring at out-workers' premises numbered
12 and included 1 smallpox, 5 of scarlet fever, 3 diphtheria, 1 erysipelas and
2 pneumonia. The usual steps were taken in connection with them by the officers
of the sanitary authority.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE, 1928.
REPORT BY DR. JAMES FANNING, ASSISTANT MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH.
The notified live births numbered 1,956, and there were in addition 54 still
births. Of the notifications 1,149 were received from registered midwives practising
in the Borough. The live births notified during the year were approximately 93.5
per cent. of the number registered during the year.
For the purpose of Maternity and Child Welfare, the Borough is divided into
seven Health Visitors' areas, the administrative centre being at the Town Hall.
Six of these areas are allocated to the six Health Visitors employed by the Borough
Council, and the remaining one to two Health Visitors employed by The School
for Mothers, a voluntary organisation working in conjunction with the Town Hall.
It may be said that the foundation of a scheme for Maternity and Child Welfare
consists of two main activities, home visiting and the clinic, and to each of these
the Health Visitors give approximately half their time. Furthermore, the number
of attendances at the clinics are to a great extent dependent on the amount of home
visiting done.
The chief centre of clinic activity is the Carnegie Model Welfare Centre, 210,
Kingsland Road, but clinics are also held in other parts of the Borough. The clinical
medical staff consists of the full-time Assistant Medical Officer of Health and four
part-time medical officers. In addition, two part-time medical officers are employed
by the School for Mothers. The following is a list of the various consultation centres
in being during the past year:-
Model Welfare Centre Infant Welfare Consulta- Monday-Friday daily,
tion 2 p.m.
Model Welfare Centre Toddlers' Clinic Wednesday, 10.30 a.m.