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4.—Registered Workshops.
Workshops and Workplaces on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.
Number.
Important classes of
workshops, such as
workshop bakehouses,
may be
enumerated here,
Laundries
77
Clothing (wholesale and private)
396
Preparation of food
202
Building trades
57
Bakehouses
183
Miscellaneous
571
Total number of workshops on Register
1,486
5.—Other Matters.
Class.
Number.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)
25
Action taken in matters referred by H.M.
Inspector as remediable under the Public
Health Acts, but not under the Factory
and Workshop Act (s. 5)
Notified by H.M. Inspector
9
Reports (of action taken)
sent to H.M. Inspector
9
Other
—
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year
-
66
In use at the end of the year
The defects numbered 218, an excess of 22 on the previous year,
and all the conditions which required alteration have received attention;
it being only necessary in one instance to take legal proceedings
to enforce compliance with our demands, although we had to hold
out threats of such a course to several firms who were careless in
the sending in the required lists of outworkers. There has thus
been an increase in the defects discovered compared with those
discovered the previous year, but, on the other hand, it must also be
noted that there has been an increase in the number of inspections
whereby such complaints are discovered.
A large number of outworkers have been received from other
Councils, with an accompanying diminution in those that we have
had to forward to other authorities. Table 5, as in last year, shows
a diminution in the number of offences that were notified to the
Inspector of Factories.