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Workshop Inspection.
The following particulars relate to the workshop inspections made
during 1910, bakehouse inspections being omitted. The total number
of inspections made during the year was 594; this number is slightly
lower than the corresponding number in 1909, owing to the fact that
Miss Moynihan, one of the Workshop Inspectors, resigned during 1910,
and her successor did not enter upon her duties until the following
year.
Cleanliness.
Eleven workrooms were found on inspection to require cleansing;
5 of these were cleansed on the request of the Inspector, and in 6 cases
it was necessary to serve a notice before the work was carried out.
Ventilation and Warming.
Two workshops were found to be without windows or any means
of ventilation other than the door opening into the workshop. In
both cases the lighting was so defective that it was necessary to use
artificial light while work was being carried on. In 8 other workshops
the means of ventilation were inadequate. In all these cases proper
means of ventilation were provided.
Eight workshops were found to be warmed by gas stoves unprovided
with flues to carry off the products of combustion. This is
a contravention of Section 6 of the Factory Act, in which it is laid down
that the measures which in every factory and workshop "must be taken
for securing and maintaining a reasonable temperature in each room in
which any person is employed, must not interfere with the
purity of the air of any room in which any person is employed." In
5 cases suitable means of warming were provided, 2 cases were reported
to the Factory Inspector, and one case was under notice at the end of
the year.
Overcrowding.
All the workrooms in the workshops are measured by the inspectors,
and the cubic space in each room is ascertained. The maximum
number of workers that can legally occupy the room is then calculated,
and this information set out on a card supplied by the Council, which
is hung up in each room. The number of legal occupants varies
according as overtime is worked, or whether the room is used as a
sleeping room as well as a workroom. During 1910 47 new workrooms
were measured.