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It appears to me that to the Borough Council, whose Inspectors are
constantly visiting such places, should be delegated the duties of supervising
all matters connected with the health of the workers in, and the
sanitation of, Factories and Workshops; and that they should further be
the Authority by whom the provisions of the Shop Hours and Shop
Assistants Seats Acts ought to be administered.
That one Inspector from the London County Council should visit
for the purpose of inspecting the means of fire escape in a Factory, that
he may be followed by a Borough Council's Inspector to ascertain the
nature and amount of the sanitary conveniences, and that in addition
there may be visits from Inspectors from the Home Office and London
County Council in connection with overtime and the hours of shop
assistants, seems unreasonable, and this overlapping of inspection cannot
fail to give rise to annoyance to the occupiers of work premises, and in
my own experience the inconvenience of this arrangement has been
frequently the subject of complaint.

In addition to the above, laundry work is carried on in the following
Charitable Institutions which are specially exempted from the provisions
of the Act:—
Trewint Industrial School, Haverstock Hill (36 girls).
Cavendish Home, Pond Street (26 girls).