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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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The following table shows the numbers of outworkers living in Shoreditch and employed by firms outside
the borough during 1952, as notified by the various sanitary authorities.
NUMBERS OF OUTWORKERS RECEIVED FROM OTHER DISTRICTS DURING 1952.
| DISTRICTS | Making Wearing Apparel. | Toys A-nri Crackers | Artificial flowers | Furniture and Upholstery | Umbrellas etc. | Paper Bags and Boxes. | Brush Making | Fancy Leather Goods | Card mounting. | Lampshade waking. | Feather sorting | Sweet wrapping. | TOTALS | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb. | Aug | Feb, | Aug. | Feb, | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb, | Aug. | Feb. | Aug | ,Feb. | Aug. | Feb, | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | Feb. | Aug. | |
| Bethnal Green | 7 | 12 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 9 | 20 |
| Finsbury | 22 | 32 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 59 | 66 | |||||||
| Hackney | 15 | 23 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | – | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | 37 | 47 | ||||||||||
| Hampstead | 1 | – | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Holborn | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Islington | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 27 | ||||||||||
| Kingston-on- Thames | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Lambeth | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| City of London. | 9 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | – |
| St. Marylebone. | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – |
| St.Pancras | 6 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 5 | |
| Southvrark | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 |
| 3tepney | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 |
| Stoke Nowington | 5 | 6 | – | – | – | –. | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 9 | 10 |
| City of Westminster | 6 | 10 | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 10 |
| Wood Green | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| TOTALS | 91 | 100 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 177 | 194 | |
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