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Shoreditch 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The total number of outworkers reported was 2,182, and of these some 1,509
were residents in Shoreditch. These figures are below the average for the past
five years.
As pointed out in previous reports, in numerous instances names and addresses
of outworkers are duplicated owing to lists being sent in twice a year, and in some
cases the same outworkers are employed by more than one firm, so that the numbers
given above must not be taken as representing the actual numbers of individual
outworkers and the tables on pages 56 and 57 show the distribution of outworkers
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 706 visits of inspection were made to places where home-work was being
carried on, and in connection with these 69 sanitary notices were served. The
cases of notifiable infectious disease occurring at outworkers' premises numbered
11 and included 5 smallpox, 5 scarlet fever and 1 diphtheria. The usual steps
were taken in connection with them by the officers of the sanitary authority.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
The following is a full list of legal proceedings instituted during the year under report:—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and Bye-Laws.
| Date. | Nature of Offence. | Fine. | Costs. | Remarks. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| s. | d. | s. | d. | |||||
| Jan. 3 | Non - compliance with Statutory Notice, 61, Grange Street. | - | 2 | 0 | Notice complied with prior to hearing. | |||
| Jan. 10 | Non - compliance with Statutory Notice, 71, Grange Street. | - | 1 | 0 | Notice complied with prior to hearing. | |||
| Jan. 10 | Non - compliance with Statutory Notice, 71, Grange Street. | - | 1 | 0 | Notice complied with prior to hearing. | |||
| Jan. 31 | Fixing a soil pipe in connection with W.C. at 56, Shaftesbury Street without notice. | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | - | ||
| Feb. 7 | Non - compliance with Statutory Notice, 18, Laburnum Street. | - | 2 | 2 | 0 | Magistrate's Order for Notice to be complied with within 14 days. | ||
| Feb. 21 | Non - compliance with Statutory Notice, 6, Witham Street. | - | - | Magistrate's Order for Notice to be complied with within 14 days. | ||||