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The total number of out-workers reported was 2,046, and of these some
1,444 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 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. The tables on pages 67 and 68
show 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 833 visits of inspection were made to places where home-work was
being carried on, and in connection with these 70 sanitary notices were served.
The cases of notifiable infectious disease occurring at out-workers' premises
numbered 15 and included 1 small-pox, 5 scarlet fever, 7 diphtheria, 1 typhoid
fever, and 1 cerebro spinal meningitis. The usual steps were taken in
connection with them by the officers of the sanitary authority.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.