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"The number of outworkers registered from the lists supplied
by the various factory and workshop proprietors is 3,088, of
which 2,248 are resident within the Borough, the remaining 840
being notified by us to the respective authorities outside.
"For the purposes of sanitary administration this Borough is
divided into six sub-districts, to each of which there is a Sanitary
Inspector who carries out all the ordinary duties relating to the
sanitary condition of the district. These duties include the
inspection of all workshops, workplaces and outworkers' homes,
which are all visited twice in each year on receipt of the lists of
outworkers in February and August.
"In addition we have a Woman Inspector who visits those
premises where women exclusively are employed, and which
amount to 178. These Officers, with the remainder of the
Sanitary Staff, act under directions given by myself in conjunction
with the Medical Officer of Health, I being the Statutory Officer
officially appointed to execute the Sanitary Acts, and who is held
personally responsible for the due enforcement of the same for
and on behalf of the Authority.
"The main industries carried on by outworkers in this
Borough are tailoring and the making of wearing apparel, boot
and shoe making, cabinet making, brush making, box making of
various kinds, i.e., match boxes, draper's boxes, cardboard
boxes, etc.
"With regard to the sanitary conditions, the various outworkers'
homes are kept under constant supervision. As stated
above, each one is visited twice per year and as often subsequently
as may be necessary to abate any insanitary conditions
found existing. In all cases where the home conditions are found
to be so unwholesome as to justify such action, the factory
proprietor is communicated with and forbidden to give out
further work until the unwholesome room or house has been
cleansed or disinfected as the case may require.