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WORKSHOPS,* WORKPLACES, LAUNDRIES
AND OUTWORKERS.
Registers and Inspections.
Suggksted Appointment of Resident (Bow) Certifying
Surgeon.
Shops Bill; Shops (No. 2) Bill; and Factory and
Workshop Bill.
Kkgisteks and Inspections.
As to the number and description of workshops on the registers see
Tables A and B, pages 171 and 172.
There are two registers of workshops kept, one for females, and the
other for males.
A register of bakehouses is also kept.
* A special form is submitted by the Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health (seepages 174 to 177) in preparing the
report on factories and workshops in pursuance of Section 132 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
In order that the form may be filled in without any difficulty from
year to year, the Sanitary Inspectors have been urgently requested to give
full and complete descriptions of the premises visited where any work is
carried on, and to classify such premises in their note books before handing
them to the clerks for the particulars to be entered in the journals,
registers and index files.
It can be easily understood that the classification of premises where
work is executed will vary from time to time, according to the pressure
of work or the nature of the work carried on—outworkers' premises may
become domestic workshops, and also workshops * and even factories ; workshops
may become factories; and workplaces may become workshops or
factories, between the visits of the Sanitary Inspectors.
' To wit, in Table A, under " Laundries, Domestic Workshops," there were 18 on the
register at the end of the year, but during the year, especially in the summer, some of
these premises were "Workshop Laundries," and the inspections would come under
Workshop Laundries.