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Home Work.
During the year 70 lists of out-workers were received from employers in the
Borough, 34 in the first and 36 in the second half-year. Those for the first half-year
are due in February, for the second in August. These lists contained the names
of 905 out-workers, of whom 656 were not residents in Shoreditch. The addresses
of those non-resident were forwarded to the sanitary authorities of the districts
to which they belonged.
The total number of out-workers reported was 1,957, and of these 1,297 were
resident in Shoreditch. These figures may be compared with the corresponding
figures of 1,978 and 1,321 for the year 1935.
As was 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. The tables on pages 146 and 147 show the distribution of outworkers
as regards trades in the Borough.
During the year 771 visits of inspection were made to places where home-work
was being carried on, and in connection with these 110 sanitary notices were served.
The cases of notifiable infectious disease occurring at out-workers' premises numbered
39 and included 16 of scarlet fever, 21 of diphtheria and 2 of pneumonia.