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32.
FACTORIES (contd.)
(a) Outworkers.
Number of Outworkers in Shoreditch 251
Number of basic routine inspections required 502
Number of basic routine inspections made 208
63 lists of outworkers were received from employers in the Borough.
913 persons of whan 701 were not resident in Shoreditch were included in these lists.
301 outworkers living in Shoreditch but working for firms outside the Borough
were notified by 17 Local Authorities.
Again one must refer to the vast amount of what one considers to be unnecessary
administrative work thrust upon the local authority Public Health Departments in
respect of Outworkers. One must again repeat, that if an obligation were placed on
the firms responsible fbr supplying local authorities with lists of outworkers, to
notify the several authorities in which their outworkers reside, it would be to everyone's
advantage, arri very much reduce the work of the clerical staff of local
authorities.
208 Inspections revealed no defects necessitating the service of Sanitary Notices.

(b) Rag FLock premises:
Under the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951, the number of
registered premises where filling materials were used at the end of 1961 was 114 and
during the year 11 licences were issued in respect of premises where rag flock is
manufactured or stored.
(i) Number of basic routine visits required 248
(ii) Number of basic routine visits made 46
(iii) Number of re-inspections made 4
(iv) Total number of inspections 50
(v) Number of samples of filling materials (a) to be taken 15
(b) taken 2
All samples complied with prescribed standards.