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With respect to workshops where wearing apparel alone is manufactured
or altered, in 598 females alone are employed, in 116 both
males and females are employed. There are also 157 domestic
workshops in the Borough; in 107 of these females alone are
employed, and in 50 males and females.
In workshops and places of other occupations, females alone are
employed in 172, and males and females in 69.
Thus in both classes (a and b) of workshops and workplaces,
females alone are employed in 782, and both males and females in
173.
During the year the following notices and complaints were received
from H.M. Inspectors of factories:—
Complaints—Factories 0
,, Workshops 7
Notices—Factories 3
,, Workshops 76
With respect to the inspection of workshops, Miss Teebay was able
to inspect 1,969 workshops (including laundries), 47 factories, 8
workplaces, and 32 homeworkers' premises. Nuisances were found to
exist on 436 premises. Miss Teebay dealt with 325 of these, the
remainder, 121, involving the execution of structural works, were
dealt with by the male inspectors. The nuisances which were abated
in connection with workshops, &c., under Miss Teebay, were as
follows:—
906—5