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industries in these small workshops are seasonal, and that the trade
is occasionally in the hands of one family, both sons and daughters
working in the workshop.
Since the formation of the Metropolitan Borough Council in 1900,
we have had a considerable number of cases where it has been
necessary to require increased sanitary convenience accommodation,
separate accommodation, etc., and since the issue of the Order of
the Home Secretary, 4th February, 1903, we have adopted that
standard (approximately one for 25 persons) as the one guiding
us in all such cases in this Borough, although previously we adopted
one in twenty as a uniform standard, and this was always complied
with. Therefore the Home Secretary's Order was more lenient than
the practice which had been in vogue in this Borough previously.
Under the guidance of the Order of the 4th February, 1903, we
have in 1907 issued Notices in 33 instances. Since 1903 the total
of such instances has been 144 plus 33, or 177. (See Report for
1904, pp. 170-177.)
During the year 22 notices have been served for insufficient
sanitary convenience accommodation in relation to factories, workshops
and workplaces, and 455 such conveniences have been cleansed
and repaired. Insufficient sanitary convenience accommodation
includes live cases in which no convenience of any kind was provided,
and in addition, in eleven cases the sanitary conveniences
were being improperly used by the two sexes.
Summary of Defaults and Defects in Factories
and Workshops.—It may be desirable here to summarize
the results of the year's work in regard to the sanitary condition of
workshops, etc. During the year 3,645 visits of inspection have
been made to factories and workshops by the Workshop Inspector,
and 74 by the Lady Inspectors, a large amount of work being
accomplished. In addition to this, the other inspectors in the
ordinary course of their duties in their several districts have
inspected 10 workshops. The chief matters arising in relation to
this work are set out in the following table:—