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In addition to inspecting the above workshops wherein
females were employed, the special work done by the Female
Inspectors in connection with outworkers, etc., is dealt with
on pages 120-127.
The inspections made during 1909 in connection with the
26 factories were made with a view to seeing if the requirements
of the Acts as to w.c. accommodation for the employees
had been complied with. This is the only duty in
regard to factories that falls to the Sanitary Inspector. In
the 26 factories there were found to be 83 workrooms, wherein
were employed, at the time of inspection, 569 persons—37
young persons (11 males and 26 females) and 532 adults (231
males and 301 females).
In addition to the 26 factories and 229 new workshops
added during 1909 to the Register and inspected, 461 other
workshop inspections and 123 re-inspections have been made,
and visits paid to 450 workshops in connection with which
the occupiers were found to have removed, or no workers
to be at work.
The importance of workshops and workplaces being kept
under constant supervision is now admitted by all, and the
details tabulated in the present Report go to shew the great
increase of work thrown upon a Sanitary or Health
Authority in the systematic carrying out of the provisions
of the Factory and Workshop Acts. In this connection,
the value of the work of the Female Sanitary Inspectors is
noteworthy (vide Special Report dealing with this particular
work, pp. 120-124).