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66
Cleansing of workrooms 133
Improving ventilation 29
Overcrowding abated 11
Drainage of washhouse floors 4
Extra sanitary accommodation 4
Def. w.c.s, yards, guttering, rain water pipes, floors,
and dust bins 142
223
In order to secure the above work being executed, this officer
served 214 intimations, 10 statutory notices, and applied for nine
summonses. Workroom cards, showing the number of persons permittee
in each workroom, were distributed to the number of 216.
In addition to the inspection of workshops, Miss Teebay inspected
32 outworkers' premises, and found six of these dirty, three in a
dilapidated condition, one with defective roof, four damp walls,
three defective dustbins, and in one case there was no dustbin on the
premises. These matters were remedied by the service of intimations
only.
The number of outworkers on the register at the end of 1904 was
2,472, against 1,736 at the end of 1903. This shows an increase of
736 during' the year.