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made in each case where a removal is reported to trace the
new address of the outworker. Owing to the resignation of
Miss Dawson, part of whose duty was to look after, and the
delay in filling the vacancy, the work was, during the latter
part of the year considerably hampered. The new lady
Inspector, Miss Fairbairn, is rapidly overtaking the arrears of
work in connection with workshops and home-work inspection.
A satisfactory fact to be able to record in connection with
home-work provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act,
1901, is the great improvement which has taken place with
regard to the keeping of lists of outworkers by employers and
the avoidance of delay in sending in the half-yearly lists to the
Health Department. This has greatly facilitated the more
rapid inspection of these premises, and has led to less difficulty
in tracing the movements of outworkers who have changed
their addresses. 251 visits were made to the premises of 46
employers, and the printed form, No. 44, was on examination
found to be correctly kept in each case.
Workplaces.
Workplace is not defined in the Factory and Workshop
Act, but the term is used in the Public Health Acts, and in a
case under Section 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
where the phrase "Factory, Workshop and Workplace"
occurs, it was held that the term "Workplace" includes "any
place where work is done permanently, and where people
assemble together to do work permanently of some kind or
other." The term has therefore, a much wider significance
than the word "Workshop," and it has been held that a stable
and stable-yard where men are employed as ostlers and cabcleaners
is a "Workplace."
In addition to the supervision of restaurants and kitchens,
ice cream shops and milk shops, which will be found on page
163 in the part of the Report dealing with the protection of the
food supply, marine store dealers and wharves were inspected
during the period under report. 132 Intimation Notices and
26 Statutory Notices were served for various nuisances under
the Public Health (London) Act and remedied.