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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
West Ham 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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3.—HOME WORK.
| NATURE OF WORK. | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SBCTION 107. | OUTWORKERS' LISTS, SECTION 107. | OUTWORK IN UNWHOLESOME PREMISES, SECTION 108 | OUTWORK IN INFECTED PRKMISES, SECTIONS 109. 110. | ||||||||||||
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| Lists received from Employers. | Notices served on ccupiers as to keeping or sending lists. | Prosecutions | Instances | Notices served | Prosecutions | Instances | Orders made (S. 110) | Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110) | ||||||||
| Twice in the year | Once in the year | Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists | Failing to send lists | |||||||||||||
| Outworkers | Outworkers | |||||||||||||||
| Lists | Contractors | Workmen | Lists | Contractors | Workmen | |||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (10) | |
| Wearing Apparel— | ||||||||||||||||
| (1) Making, | 152 | li7 | 1696 | 5 | - | 29 | 148 | — | — | - | — | _ | 9 | |||
| (2) Cleaning and Washing | 2 | — | 15 | — | - | — | 2 | |||||||||
| Lace, Lace Curtains and Nets | ||||||||||||||||
| Furniture and Upholstery | ||||||||||||||||
| Electro Plate | ||||||||||||||||
| Fur Pulling | ||||||||||||||||
| Cables and Chains | ||||||||||||||||
| Anchors and Grapnels | ||||||||||||||||
| Sacks | ||||||||||||||||
| Locks, Latches and Keys | ||||||||||||||||
| Umbrellas, | ||||||||||||||||
| Paper Bags and Boxes | 2 | — | 11 | — | - | — | 2 | |||||||||
| Brush Making | 4 | — | 47 | — | - | — | 4 | |||||||||
| Cosaques, Christmas Crackers, | 2 | — | IV | — | — | — | 2 | |||||||||
| Total | 162 | 117 | 1786 | 5 | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | 9 | |||||
| 4.—REGISTERED WORKSHOPS. | 5.—OTHER MATTERS. | |||||||||||||||
| Important classes of workshops, such as workshop bakehouses, may be enumerated here. | Workshops on the Register (S. 131; at the end of the year (1) | Number (2) | Class (1) | Number (2) | ||||||||||||
| . | 595 | Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories :— | ||||||||||||||
| Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) | 17 | |||||||||||||||
| Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5)...... | Notified by H.M. Inspecto | 25 | ||||||||||||||
| Reports (of action taken sent to H.M. Inspector | 23 | |||||||||||||||
| Other | — | |||||||||||||||
| Underground Bakehouses (S. 101) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total number of workshops on Register | 595 | Certificates granted during the year | ||||||||||||||
| In use at the end of the year | 46 | |||||||||||||||