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kept all the documents relating to that particular
workshop.
An abstract of the above particulars is entered upon
a card which is filed in a card register, and on the card
are also recorded the results of subsequent inspections and
of proceedings taken in connection therewith.
Cards are distributed to the occupiers of workshops
setting forth for each workroom the maximum number
of persons who may be legally employed
(a) During ordinary working hours when the workroom
is not used as a sleeping-room;
(b) When overtime is being- worked;
(c) When the workroom is used as a sleeping-room.
One of these cards is posted up in each workroom,
so that both the occupier and the workers need be under
no misapprehension as to what constitutes overcrowding.
By Section 131 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
every district council is obliged to keep a register of all
workshops within their district. As indicated above, a card
register is used in this office for the purpose. It has been
found of great service, and to have many advantages over a
book register, being easily adjusted to meet the continual
variations in the number of workshops, and affording a readilyaccessible
record of the history of each particular workshop.
A similar register is kept of all the factories, workplaces,
and out-workers' premises in the Borough.
A list of the workshops inspected up to the 31st December,
1902, with the number of persons of each sex employed therein
is given below.