Report on the public health of 1902.

  • Finsbury (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Report on the public health of 1902. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    183 IV. Outworkers' Lists —Under Section 107 of the Act, employees in certain industries (namely : (a) making, cleaning, washing, altering, finishing and repairing of wearing apparel; (b) ditto for lace, lace curtains and nets : (c) cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work ; (d) electro-plating ; (e) making of files and (f) fur-pulling) have to keep, in prescribed form, lists of employees working outside the factory or workshop. Such lists have to be sent on or before February 1st and August 1st in each year to the Borough Council. In cases where such out workers do not reside in the limits of the Borough in which they work, then their names and addresses are to be sent on to the Council in whose district they reside. In Finsbury, during 1902, we have received 53 lists from 42 employers, only six of whom have acted in strict accordance with the Act, and sent two lists during the year at the stated periods. Thirty-four employers have sent once; one, three times; and one, four times. It may be necessary to take action under Section 107, Sub-section (5), to enforce more accurate returns. The penalty to which employers are liable for contraventing this requirement of sending in lists is £2 or for second offences £5. These 53 lists have chiefly been from firms concerned in the making or preparing of wearing apparel (Section a). We have received several lists from fur-pullers (Section f.) Sections (c), (d) and (e) have, generally speaking, furnished no lists. We have received lists of outworkers from 16 Local Authorities in whose districts outworkers are employed who live in Finsbury. In this way we have obtained the names and addresses of 218 outworkers obtaining work from elsewhere but living and working in Finsbury. The following Table furnishes in brief the facts obtained under Section 107 of the Act:—