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During the year further progress has been made with the
systematic suivey of the workplaces of the whole Borough, which
forms at present the major part of the Workshop Inspector's duties.
The factories, workshops and workplaces in an area bounded by
Goswell Road on the east, Clerkenwell Road on the south, and St.
John Street, Corporation Row, Bowling Green Lane, and Farringdon
Road on the north-west, have been inspected. The following
table concerning this area, shows some results of the work done:—
No. on
Registers,
1906.
No. added
to
Registers,
1907.
Total No.
on
Registers.
Nuisances,
&c., Found.
Intimation
Notices
Issued.
Statutory
Notices
Issued.
Notices to
Home
Office.
Factories 44 157 201 119 67 2 25
Workshops 286 181 467 372 211 27 60
Workplaces 3 39 42 27 17 2 —
TOTALS 333 377 710 518 295 31 85
II. Special Sanitary Regulations for
Bakehouses.
No new Bakehouses have been opened, and none have been closed.
There are in the Borough 21 above-ground, and 40 under-ground.
They are regularly inspected, 113 visits having been paid by the
Inspectors during 1907.
III. Home Work (including: Outworkers).
The Outworkers referred to in this section are persons or firms
resident in Finsbury, to whom materials, generally cut out and
prepared for making up, are distributed by firms belonging to
Finsbury or other Boroughs, to be completed in the worker's home
or contractor's factory or workshop. The inspection of outworkers'
premises during 1907 has been carried out by the Lady Sanitary
Inspectors, and the result is set out in the table on p. 116. It will
be seen that 214 home-workers' premises have been inspected, and