[Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds (England). City Council.
Date:
1921
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Credit: [Report 1921] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3, 4, 5-—OTHER MATTERS. Homework :— List of Outworkers (S. 107) :— (No homeworkers on our register except amongst those engaged in making wearing apparel)* * Lists received twice in the year ,, once in the year . . Addresses of) received from other Authorities outworkers j forwarded to other Authorities Notices to occupiers as to keeping or sending lists Prosecutions. . Inspection of Homeworkers’ premises . . Homework in unwholesome premises :— Instances Notices Prosecutions Homework in infected premises Instances Orders made (S. no) Prosecutions (SS. 109, no) [Infectious cases removed, disinfection carried out under ordinary powers.] Number of Workshops on the Register (S. 131) at the end of year Ordinary (174 trades) Domestic (19 trades) Bakehouses on register as workshops Do. domestic Total number of workshops on Register ., Matters notified to H.M. Inspectors of Factories :— Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133) Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not under the Factory Act (S. 5). Other ''Notified by H.M. Inspector Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspectors.. Lists. Outworkers. c. w. 406 792 844 74 52 90 Underground Bakehouses (S. 101) :— Certificates granted during the year In use at the end of 1921 .. 120 11 637 • • 289 62 62 4t 4 L93I 74 181 32 1,228 70 222 411 t Two were for patients suffering from diphtheria and two from erysipelas. * Two of the above lists (containing three workpeople) received twice a year—home workers engaged in paper bag making. All others in wearing apparel. The above table is that required by the Home Office and represents work done by the male workshops inspectors and by the women inspectors.