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discovery of other insanitary conditions besides those to which attention was directed
by the factory inspectors in their intimations. Such conditions were also attended to.
All the sanitary work in connection with the workshops and work places to which
attention was directed by the factory inspectors was completed within a few days after
the close of the year.
In addition to those brought under the notice of the Sanitary Authority by the
factory inspectors, 139 factories, workshops and work places, excluding bakehouses,
were dealt with during the year; the defects and insanitary conditions remedied being
similar in character to those referred to above. Special attention was given to
cleanliness, air-space, ventilation, drainage of floors in eases where wet processes were
carried on, and the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary accommodation.
Altogether, some 333 sanitary notices were served by the inspectors with respect
to 391 factories, workshops and work places. In a number of instances several workshops
were dealt with on the same notice. In the majority of cases the insanitary
conditions were rectified upon the receipt of the notices from the inspectors.

The above abstract includes the work done under the supervision of the chief
inspector in connection with four new blocks of warehouses and workshops erected
during the course of the year, which afford accommodation for several hundred work
people.
It was necessary to bring some 26 of the premises under the notice of the Health
Committee by whose orders 31 statutory notices were served upon the parties
responsible. It was not necessary in any instance to institute Police Court
proceedings.