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REPORT OP INSPECTOR OF WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES
&c., FOR THE YEAR 1900.
To the Public Health Committee, Hackney Borough Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my annual report for the year
ended 31st December, 1900.
Workshops and Laundries.—At the end of 1900 we had on the
register 890 workshops (including laundries which number 164)
containing 1,281 workrooms. These numbers are slightly smaller
than at the end of 1899, owing I think to two causes. 1st—The
situation of several workshops in streets surrendered to other Local
Authorities in November last, in consequence of the readjustment of
the boundries of the parish; and as far as I have been able to
ascertain at present, the number surrendered was in excess of the
number of workshops coming under our jurisdiction from the same
cause. 2nd.—The fact that I have devoted one day a week to the
inspection of premises occupied by outworkers, and have therefore
had less time to bestow upon the finding out and visiting of workshops
not already under inspection to take the place of those that in the
usual course of events have to be crossed off the register as
unoccupied.
During the year I have paid 139 first visits to workshops and
laundries, and 1,906 visits of re-inspection. In only one case have I
been refused admission to a workshop. I reported the matter to the
Medical Officer of Health, who at once wrote to the occupier of the
workshop, so that when I called a second time I was permitted to
inspect the premises without obstruction. I found nuisances existing
on 426 premises—306 of these nuisances I dealt with myself, and can
report the abatement of 258; the remaining 120 were handed over by
the Medical Officer to the district Sanitary Inspector to deal with, as