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rooms are specially dealt with. Sanitary arrangements
are duly provided for. The number of closets
and urinals in proportion to the number of children
is set out in detail.
OUTWORKERS.
On May 23rd the Home Secretary issued a further
Order relating to outworkers. By this order the
provisions of the "outworkers" sections of the Factory
and Workshop Act 1901 are extended to the following
additional classes of home-work:—
Artificial Flowers; Nets other than wire nets; tents
and sacks, covering of racquet or tennis balls; boxes
of cardboard, chip, or similar material; pea picking;
feather sorting; carding, boxing, or packeting of
buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and hair pins; and the
making of baskets.
An additional requirement is that occupiers of workshops
and factories, also contractors are required to
state the particular class of work on which the outworker
is engaged.
Immediate steps were taken to ascertain the names
and addresses of employers of any additional classes
of labour named in the order and to secure a return of
the outworkers employed by them.
In no case was it necessary to take legal proceedings
against employers for failure to furnish lists, as these
are received promptly. Particulars requesting outworkers
will be found in the table in the appendix.
Outworkers are further dealt with in the report of the
Chief Inspector pages 48, 75, and 76.