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workshops), 1 is a workplace, and in 34 cases only a single worker
is employed on the premises.
No cases of notifiable infectious disease occurred during 1908
in houses inhabited by outworkers.
The outworkers' premises in Hampstead are kept under regular
supervision. They are usually found to be in a satisfactory condition,
and any defects that are discovered are promptly remedied.
Factories.
The sanitation of factories is largely controlled by the Factory
Inspectors, but duties of considerable importance relating to general
sanitation devolve upon the Borough Council, who are responsible
among other duties, for the administration of section 38 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891. The section imposes upon the
Council the duty of securing "suitable and sufficient accommodation
in the way of sanitary conveniences" for the persons of both
sexes employed in the Hampstead factories, workshops and workplaces.