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3. This Order may be referred to as the Home Work Order of the
15th August, 1905.
4. The Home Work Orders of the 11th December, 1901, and of
the 14th July, 1902, are hereby revoked.
A. AKERS-DOUGLAS,
One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of Stale.
Home Office, Whitehall.
15th August, 1905.
[With the above circular was printed Sees. 107, 108 and 110 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.]
V. Inspection, Registration, &c.
The inspection of factories, workshops, and workplaces in the
Borough is carried out by Mr. George Peverett, who was appointed
in 1902 for this special work. His duties may be set out as
follows:—(a) The primary systematic inspection of all workshops
and workplaces; (b) the re-inspection of men's and mixed workshops,
&c.; (c) the inspection of sanitary arrangements in factories;
and (d) attention to Home Office notices, except where these concern
women's workshops only. The two lady inspectors carry out the
re-inspection of workshops in which women only are employed,
the primary inspection of such workshops as are met with in the
course of their visits to tenements, and the inspection of outworkers'
homes.
A Register of Workshops and Workplaces is kept in the Department
which contains the names and addresses of the occupier, the
trade or manufacture, the position and cubic capacity of the
workrooms, the number of gas burners, the number of occupants
permissible, the means of ventilation, and details respecting the
sanitary arrangements. At the end of 1904, there were on the
register 1,745 workshops and workplaces. During 1905, 226
workshops and 43 workplaces, or a total of 209, were added, 155