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case it was insufficient for the number of workers employed
and at three premises proper separate accommodation for the
sexes was lacking.
Provision of means of escape in case of fire.-This portion
of the Act is by a special resolution of the Local Authority
administered by your Borough Surveyor, a list of premises to
which this provision applies being furnished him by this
Department.
Special Sanitary Regulations of Bakehouses—Breaches
of these numbered seven, and consisted of neglect to carry
out the periodical cleansing and limewashing.
Homework.—Fifty-six visits of inspections were made
to outworkers' premises, and at ten minor nuisances were
discovered, two being remedied on verbal intimation to the
occupier, and eight after the service of notices.
During the systematic inspection of premises under this
Act it was ascertained that three persons in different parts
of the district were being employed as outworkers by a
certain tailor who had failed to furnish the names of these
three persons as outworkers. Written notice had previously
been sent him drawing his attention to his obligation to keep
a list of his Outworkers and to send a copy of such list to the
Local Authority at specified times. No lists having been
received from him by the 1st August, 1908, or 1st February,
1909, he was summoned to appear before the Magistrates on
Wednesday, 17th February, for failing to comply with the
requirements of the Act, and fined 5s. and one guinea costs
for one offence and 5s. and a half a guinea for the other.
Other Offences.—An anonymous complaint was received
alleging that workers at a certain workshop were being
worked overtime beyond the legal limits. This was referred
to H.M. Inspector, as were four cases where occupiers had
failed to affix an Abstract of the Act. Eight Notices were
received from the Home Office drawing attention to various
matters which required remedying, and the necessary steps
were taken and replies sent stating what had actually been
done in each instance.
Food Inspection.—Frequent inspections have been made
of all shops and places where food of any description is sold,
or prepared for sale, as in restaurants and dining rooms, and
occasionally the occupiers have been requested to remove and
destroy various articles of food found to be unfit for consumption.
In several instances the food had unintentionally
been exposed for sale. No opposition on the part of the shopkeepers
or salesmen has been met with, and they have willingly
assisted in preventing unsound or unwholesome food being
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