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The making or repairing of sacks.
The covering of racquet or tennis halls.
Pea picking.
Feather sorting.
The carding, boxing or packeting of buttons, hooks and eyes, pins and
hair pins.
The making of baskets.
Any processes incidental to the above.
Further details respecting Factories, Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces and
Home-work are given in Table IX. of the Appendix.
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
On the 6th November last, a conference of representative of the Home Office
and Medical Officers of Health was held at the Home Office to consider the
question of further regulation of the industrial employment of women before and
after childbirth.
The present Factory and Workshop Act prohibits the employment of a woman
or girl within four weeks after she has given birth to a child. Further regulation
was recommended by the Physical Deterioration Committee in 1904, and the
Conference on Infantile Mortality in 1906.
The latter Conference resolved (1) the extension of the period from one month
to three months, (2) the prohibition of the employment of women advanced in
pregnancy unless medically certified as fit for work.
It appeared to the Secretary of State that a simultaneous and systematic
enquiry into the subject, on uniform lines by the Medical Officers of Health of a
number of representative industrial centres would yield the best results.
The Holborn Borough Council approved of my co-operation and my attendance
at the Conference at which the details of the form which the inquiry should take
were agreed to.
PLACES WHERE FOOD IS PREPARED FOR SALE.
Under this head are included kitchens of hotels, restaurants and eating-houses
of all sorts, slaughter-houses, tripe, offal and other meat shops, fried fish, eel and
other fish shops, premises where ice cream is made, and other places where food is
prepared for sale, excluding bakehouses which are given on previous page.
The number of these places on the register at the end of 1907 was 359;
1,994 inspections were made, and 78 notices were served during the year for
sanitary defects found.