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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
St Giles (Camberwell) 1892
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]
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RETURN OF HOUR: OF LABOUR, &c
| Workmen. | Season. | Days. | Commence Work. | Leave Work. | Gross No. of Flours per Day. | Deduct for Meals. | Nett No. of Working Hours per day | No. of Days per Week. | Nett No. of Working Hours per Week. | Rate of Wage per Week. | Weekly Wage = at per Hour Worked. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a.m. | p.m. | Hours. | Hours. | Hours. | ||||||||
| ASSISTANT GARDENER | Same Hours, viz.:— | In Summer | 54 | 30s. | = 6 66d., say 6½d. per hour. | |||||||
| In Winter | 52½ | 30s. | = 6.85d., say 6¾d., per hour. | |||||||||
| CAMBER WELL GREEN KEEPERS (LATE ROADMEN) | Monday to Saturday | About 8.0 a.m. to 7.0 p.m. average all the year round | 11 | 1½ | = 9½ | X 6 | = 57 | 20s. | = 4.21d., say 4¼d per hour. | |||
| CARMEN | Monday to Friday | 5.45 | 5.15 | =11½ | - 1½ | = 10 | X 5 | = 50 | ||||
| Saturday | 5.45 | 2.0 | = 8¼ | — 1 | = 7¼ | X 1 | = 7¼ | |||||
| Monday to Friday | - 57¼ | 27s. | = 5.65d., say 5½, per hour. | |||||||||
| 6.0 | 5.30 | = 11½ | - 1½ | = 10 | X 5 | =50 | ||||||
| Saturday | 6.0 | 2.0 | = 8 | — 1 | X 1 | = 7 | ||||||
| ROADMEN (Class B) (SWEEPERS) | Monday to Friday | — 57 | 27s. | = 5.68d.. say 5½d. per hour. | ||||||||
| 6.0 | 5.0 | = 11 | - 1½ | = 9½ | X 5 | = 47½ | ||||||
| Saturday | 6.0 | 2.0 | = 8 | — 1 | = 7 | X 1 | — 7 | |||||
| - 54½ | ||||||||||||
| Dinner | Less½ hour on Friday | ½ | ||||||||||
| - | Class B. | |||||||||||
| Monday to Friday Saturday | 54 | 25s. | 6d. | 5.66d., say 5½d. per hour. | ||||||||
| 7.0 | 5.0 | = 10 | — 1 | = 9 | X 5 | = 45 | ||||||
| 7.0 | 2.0 | = 7 | -½ | = 6½ | X 1 | = 6½ | ||||||
| 51½ | ||||||||||||
| Less½ hour on Friday | ½ | Class B. | ||||||||||
| — 51 | 25s. | 6d. | = 6d. per hour. | |||||||||
CAMBERWELL GREEN.—Superintendent same hours as Assistants, with
watering, covering up, and attending to
sometimes up to midnight.
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the addition of closing each night, and general supervision on Sunday,
greenhouses, and in winter to the greenhouse fires, and in severe weather