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a register of the same within the borough, the registering- and
inspection of premises where home-work is carried on, the
receipt and control of returns from employers giving work to
outworkers and contractors.
The chief difficulty in dealing with outworkers is the constant
change of address of those having the work in hand.
They are frequently removing to fresh houses, and this
necessitates continual amendment of the register.
On the whole the workshops and outworkers' premises in
the borough are well kept. Where found necessary they have
been cleansed, and other defects as found from time to time
remedied. No legal proceedings have been required.
The number of workshops on the register is 255, including
bakehouses and laundries. The number of inspections being
752.
Inspections of factories numbered 46.
The number of outworkers' premises on register is 387, and
the inspections 359.
Workplaces other than the above were: on register 68, and
inspection 79.
(For particulars, see tables 4, 5, 6 and 7).
DAIRIES, MILKSHOPS AND PURVEYORS OF MILK.
(See Table 3.)
These premises have been periodically inspected during the
year, and where necessary, cleansing of vessels and premises
have been enforced. There are at present on the register 190
persons registered as purveyors of milk within the borough,
and 395 inspections have been made. In the cases of change
of occupiers, new registrations have been made and recorded.
I would direct attention to the constant change of occupiers of