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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
subject of the representation under Part I. of the Act.
The remaining house is included in the scheme which
your Board has undertaken to open up the entrance to
Clare Market through Gilbert's Passage. Another
improvement (from a sanitary point of view) undertaken
by agreement between your Board and the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners and now in progress, is the
widening of Chichester Rents, Chancery Lane.
WORKSHOFS.
The Strand District includes within its bounds so
many and so varied industries that it is of extreme importance
that your Board should see that the work is
carried out in premises sanitarily fit for the purpose.
The Labour Commissioners have recommended that
with a view to the improvement, or, where that should
prove impossible, the gradual extinction of the lowest
class of workplaces in which the "sweated" industries
are carried on, legislation to the following effect is
desirable:—
"That within the industries or districts affected
"by the proposed legislation, or by administrative
"orders under it, all occupiers of workshops (ex"cluding
domestic Avorkshops, which we do not
"think can be dealt with at present), and, perhaps,
"also of factories, shall be required under penalties to
"obtain a certificate from a competent public authority
"to the effect that the premises used by them are in
"all respects in an efficient sanitary condition, and
"contain sufficient cubic space for the number of
"persons employed therein, such certificate to be with"drawn
at any time if it were found that the conditions
"were no longer complied with. The occupiers should