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Of the workshops and places where wearing apparel is manufactured
or altered, there are 523 where females alone are employed,
91 where males and females are employed, 29 where males alone are
employed. In addition to the above there are 77 domestic workshops
employing females alone.
In the workshops and places of other occupations females alone are
employed in 132, males alone in 104 and both sexes in 54.
Of both classes of workshops and places (a and b) 635 employ
females alone, 133 males alone and 145 both sexes, and 77 domestic
workshops employ females alone.
During the year the following notices and complaints were received
from the Factory Inspector.
NOTICES AND COMPLAINTS RECEIVED FROM H.M.
INSPECTORS OF FACTORIES DURING 1903.
Complaints—Factory 1
„ Workshops 26
Notices—Factories 5
,, Workshops 87
During the year Miss Teebay made 135 first visits to workshops
where females were employed and 1,440 visits of reinspection.
During these visits nuisances were found on 312 of these premises,
212 being dealt with by Miss Teebay, and the remainder by the
male Inspectors. In three instances the nuisances were not abated
without instituting proceedings at the police court.
The following list of work was done under the supervision of Miss
Teebay:
Workrooms cleansed128
Workrooms, the ventilation of which was improved 36
Abatement of overcrowding in workrooms 17
Defective condition of wc's, yards, guttering, rainwater
pipes, floors, roofs and dust bins remedied 84