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ANNUAL REPORT
of Inspector Turner, carrying out duties in connection with
Factories and Workshops, Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops;
Bakehouses, Slaughterhouses, Offensive and Ice Cream
Businesses, and Canal Boats; Samples under Food and Drugs
Acts, and Margarine Act, and results of Prosecutions.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, was a consolidating
Act, repealing the former Acts of 1878, 1883, 1891, except
sections 8, 9, 10, 12, and the first schedule 1895, except section
12, sub-section 3 of section 24; and section 28.
The unrepealed sections of the Act of 1895 and 1891 do not
affect the duties devolving on the Local Authority but refer to
the duties in connection with the department of His Majesty's
Inspector of Factories.
Under the provisions of the new Act of 1901 the duties of
the local authorities are more defined and imperative.
Under section 131 the District Council are required to keep a
register of all workshops situate in their district.
His Majesty's Inspector is also required to furnish a list of
the premises on his register to the Local Authority at the
commencement of the Act.
This list was duly obtained from His Majesty's Inspector and
a register compiled, and added to from time to time as required.
By section 107, the occupier of every factory, workshop, or
place, from which any work is given out as home work, is
required to furnish a list of such workers to the District Council,
giving names and addresses, on or before the first day of
February and the first day of August in each year, and also to
keep a copy of such list in the factory, workshop, or place, from
which such work is given out.
A register of Outworkers has been compiled and the
necessary forms and notices served upon the premises employing