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Act of 1878), the penalty on the occupier for this offence being
a fine not exceeding ten pounds. I have only to add that
section 41 makes provision for the service on the Factory
Inspector, by the occupier, of a written notice containing
specified particulars of a workshop, and it is directed that,
" any notice so served shall be forthwith forwarded to the
sanitary Authority of the district in which the workshop is
situate," obviously with the intention that the said Authority
may be enabled to discharge the duties imposed upon them by
the Acts, 1878 to 1895, which Acts, I may observe, might be
consolidated with advantage to all parties.
DUTIES OF THE SANITARY AUTHORITY WITH
RESPECT TO WORKSHOPS.
In my sixth monthly report (June 28th, page 90) I
reported, with regard to the work which has been so usefully
carried out in this parish by the women inspectors, as
follows:—
" I am frequently asked whether your Vestry in appointing special
officers to inspect workshops, workplaces, laundries, &c., have not
interfered with duties legally attaching to the office of the factory
inspectors appointed by the Secretary of State ? The answer to this
question is distinctly negative. There is nothing conflicting in the
duties of factory inspectors and those of your Vestry's women inspectors
of workshops. &c. The duties of the respective offices are reciprocal.
One of the duties devolving upon the Medical Officer of Health under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (sec. 27). is to give 'written notice to
the factory inspector' of 'any child, young person, or woman employed
in a Workshop ' and this duty I have discharged since October. 1893, in a
large number of instances, through the information supplied by the
women inspectors. I report, moreover, to, Her Majesty's superintending
inspector of workshops, &c., every workshop and workplace newly
opened, or discovered by the inspectors; and, reciprocally, he forwards to
me. direct, all notices he receives from persons intimating intention to
occupy premises as workshops or workplaces. In like manner the superintending
inspector reports to me all cases of overcrowding discovered
by his assistants, and all cases of dirty and insanitary premises, observed
by those officers, requiring to be dealt with under the Acts ; it being the