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Since the formation of the Metropolitan Borough Council in 1900,
we have had a considerable number of cases where it has been
necessary to require increased sanitary convenience accommodation,
separate accommodation, &c., and since the issue of the Order of
the Home Secretary, 4th February, 1903, we have adopted that
standard as the one guiding us in all such cases in this Borough,
although previously we adopted one in twenty as a uniform
standard, and this was always complied with. Therefore the Home
Secretary's Order was more lenient than the practice which had
been in vogue in this Borough previously.
Under the guidance of the Order of the 4th February, 1903, we
have in 1905 issued Notices in 33 instances, in all of which there
has been compliance. In no case has it been necessary to contest
the point in court. Since 1903 the total of such instances has been
(81 + 33, or 114. (See Report for 1904, pp. 170-177.)
During the year 22 notices have been served for insufficient
sanitary convenience accommodation in relation to factories, workshops
and workplaces, and 433 such conveniences have been
cleansed and repaired. Insufficient sanitary convenience accommodation
includes six cases in which no convenience of any kind
was provided, and in addition, in 4 cases the sanitary conveniences
were unsuitable for use by both sexes, and in seven other cases were
being improperly used.
Summary of Defaults and Defects in Factories
and Workshops.—In may be desirable here to summarize
the results of the year's work in regard to the sanitary condition of
workshops, etc. During the year 3,657 visits of inspection have
been made to factories and workshops by the Workshop Inspector
and the Lady Inspectors, and a large amount of Work has been
accomplished. In addition to this, the other inspectors in the
ordinary course of their duties on their several districts have
inspected 18 workshops. The chief matters arising in relation to
this work are set out in the following table:—