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that section to be affixed, a notice specifying the number of
persons who may be employed in each room of the workshop
by virtue of the said section. Contravention of the section
by the occupier of the workshop is punishable by a fine not
exceeding forty shillings. The said notice will have to be
affixed in any laundry as if it was a workshop. It is the
duty of the occupier to ascertain the cubic capacity of each
workroom. so as to determine the number of persons who may
occupy it, and to affix the notice in the prescribed form therein.
I need hardly remind your Vestry that the women inspectors
have long since measured all of the rooms in the workrooms
in this parish where females are employed, and distributed or
affixed, in very many instances, cards indicating the correct
number of employées upon the now legalised scale. This action
will have saved the occupiers much trouble, especially having
regard to the confessed difficulty they experience in measuring
cubic space. The workshops, including laundries, on the
register at the close of the year, were about 640 in number.
The workshops where men are employed must be numerous,
but practically almost nothing has been done (and with the
present staff little can be done) to give effect to the law, with
respect to them, in any way comparable with the work so
well done by the women inspectors of workshops, laundries,
etc., where women are employed. Enough has been said to
show that, if section 1 is to be properly carried out, a heavy
duty of supervision, in respect of overcrowding alone, will
have been cast on the officers of the Sanitary Authority by
the Act. Section 6 renders liable to a fine any occupier of a
workshop who allows wearing apparel to be made in any place
where an inmate is suffering from scarlet fever or small-pox.
In the memorial addressed to the Home Secretary, your
Vestry proposed the addition to this clause of the following
words: "or any of the other dangerous infectious diseases
specified in section 55, sub-section (8) of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891," and urged the desirability of the provisions
of the clause being extended to the case of outworkers,