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has been effected without any special reports or certificates
being necessary, and consequently without much attention
being paid to the subject.
Most of this work, being chiefly concerned with drainage,
has fallen almost entirely on your sanitary inspector,
Mr. Ashdown, and too great credit cannot be given to him
for the careful and conscientious manner in which he has
carried out these duties. In every case during this year,
where the Board have ordered premises to be re-drained, the
works have been carried out directly under the inspector's
supervision, and every drain has been tested by the water
test before being covered in ; and this test has on very many
occasions to be freqnently repeated before the work is passed
as satisfactory by the inspector. The benefit to the district
that will eventually accrue, cannot be over estimated, and I
am certain that in a short period of time there will be no
district in London that is better drained than St. Olave's.
In the early part of the year I reported on an order issued
by the Secretary of State, under section 27 of the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1891. The order required lists to be kept
of out-workers in the following businesses:—
The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel.
Cabinet and furniture making, and upholstery work.
The manufacture of electro-plate.
The manufacture of files.
The list was to be repaired and kept up to date by the
occupier of every factory or workshop, and every contractor
employed by such occupier, and was open to the inspection