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outworkers who were residing in other districts. There were sent on
to the respective districts. The following is a list of these local
authorities with the numbers of names and addresses sent on to them.

With regard to the duties of the local authority in respect to work.
shops and workplaces this may be briefly summarised in the statement
that they are responsible that these places are kept in a sanitary
condition, i.e., they must be kept (a) clean and free from offensive
effluvia, not allowed to be (b) overcrowded, must be kept (c) ventilated
in such a way as to render harmless any gases or impurities produced
in the course of the work carried on there. In any workshop
where the floor is liable to be wet through any work carried on (d)
provision must be made for its proper drainage. Also (e) sufficient
and suitable sanitary conveniences for both sexes must be provided.
In order to carry out the above duties it is necessary not only that
the workshop and its appurtenances should in the first instance be
satisfactorily arranged, but that they should be periodically visited,
and in order to check overcrowding, that surprise visits should be
made during hours of overtime work. I think the workshops and
workplaces of the district should be inspected twice a year, as is done
with the bakehouses of the district. In the majority of the workshops
tabulated above where articles of wearing apparel are
manufactured, the workers are females. As the local authority has