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Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
This part of the Report is made pursuant to Section 132 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which provides that—
"The Medical Officer of Health of every District Council shall
in his Annual Report to them, report specifically on the
administration of this Act in workshops and workplaces'
and he shall send a copy of his Annual Report, or so much
of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State."
At the end of 1911 there were 458 workshops on the register, of
which 31 were domestic workshops. Excluding the latter, there were
employed in the workshops 826 males and 1,087 females. Dressmaking
is the trade chiefly carried on in the Hampstead workshops, and next in
order of frequency come bootmaking, tailoring, baking and millinery.