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Two hundred and forty-five inspections have been made during
the year.
No underground premises have closed during the year, the
number of same remaining at 28.
The bakehouses have been periodically inspected, and the
cleansing and lime-washing regularly carried out.
I am pleased to again report that the bakehouses of the
Borough are in a satisfactory condition.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The premises have been periodically inspected during the year,
and the necessary measures taken to enforce the regulations under
the control of the Borough Council, viz., the provision of sanitary
accommodation for the use of workpeople of both sexes, cleansing
and ventilation, and the reception and issuing of lists of outworkers,
with the registration and inspection of outworkers' premises.
On inspection, it is found necessary to cancel the names of
many on the outworkers' register, owing to removal and change of
address. The class of people so employed are constantly on the
move. The number so dealt with during the year was 84.
Where found necessary on inspection the premises have been
cleansed and limewashed and any other defects remedied.
Proceedings were instituted in three cases for neglecting to
furnish the lists of outworkers, as required by Section 107 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and the full penalty of £2 and
costs was imposed in each case.
In two cases work was found on outworkers' premises in which
infectious sickness was notified, and the same was removed and
disinfected before being returned to the employers.
The number of workshops on the register at the close of the
year, including bakehouses and laundries, was 269.
The number of inspections for the year was 432.
The number of inspections on factory premises was 33.
The number of outworkers' premises on the register was 449;
and the number of inspections 279.
Workplaces other than the above were:—On the register, 98;
number of inspections, 73.
(For details sec Tables Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17).