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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES, &c,
FOR THE YEAR 1899.
To the Public Health Committee, Hackney Vestry.
Gentlemen,
During the year 1899 I have paid 730 first visits and 1,119 visits of reinspection
in workshops and laundries. Among these were 42 workshops
and 3 laundries, subject to the regulations of the Factory and Workshops
Acts, as well as to those of the Public Health (London) Act, which had not
previously been visited by any inspector.
I found nuisances existing on 395 premises. In 137 cases, where the
abatement of the nuisance involved structural alterations or repairs, I handed
on complaints to the Sanitary Inspectors of the different districts. Of the
remaining 258 nuisances, dealt with by me, I can report the abatement of
201. I have served 180 intimations, 43 final notices, 9 statutory notices, and
applied for two summonses.
We have now on the registers 737 workshops and 173 laundries, containing
a total of 1,343 workrooms. The number of registered workshops and
laundries is being continually added to by new ones brought under notice by
H.M. Inspectors, by letter, by advertisements in the local newspapers, &c.
Workroom cards, showing the number of persons permitted in each
room, have been distributed to 336 workrooms.
This year I have again to report that I have been unable to visit out
workers owing to the large number of workshops and laundries that claim my
attention. There are on the register I have kept 974 outworkers living in
this district. Of these I have visited 12. The names of outworkers nonresident
in this district, but who work for employers carrying on business in
the Parish of Hackney have been sent to the Medical Officer of the district
in which they live.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
ALICE TEEBAY,
Sanitary Inspector and Inspector of Workshops, Laundries, &c.
Town Hall, Hackney, N.E.,
8th February, 1900.