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3. This Order may be referred to as the Home Work Order
of the 23rd May, 1907.
4. The Home Work Order of the 15th August, 1905, is hereby
revoked.
H. J. Gladstone,
One of His Majesty's Principal
Home Office, Whitehall, Secretaries of State.
23rd May, 1907.
V. Inspection, Registration, &c.
The inspection of factories, workshops, and workplaces in the
Borough is carried out by Mr. George Peverett, who was appointed
in. 1902 for this special work. His duties may be set out as
follows:—(a) The primary systematic inspection of all workshops
and workplaces; (b) the re-inspection of men's and mixed workshops,
etc.; (c) the inspection of sanitary arrangements in factories;
and (d) attention to Home Office notices, except where these concern
women's workshops only. The two lady inspectors carry out the
re-inspection of workshops in which women only are employed,
thel primary inspection of such workshops as are met with in the
course of their visits to tenements, and the inspection of outworkers'
homes.
A Register of Workshops and Workplaces is kept in the Department,
which contains the names and addresses of the occupier, the
trade or manufacture, the position and cubic capacity of the workrooms,
the number of gas burners, the number of occupants permissible,
the means of ventilation, and details respecting the
sanitary arrangements. At the end of 1906, there were on the
register, 1,843 workshops and workplaces. During 1907, 263
workshops and 40 workplaces, or a total of 303, were added, 223
were removed as obsolete entries, leaving a total now om the register
of 1,923.
In regard to the employment of women in factories and workshops
it may be said that there are 104 workshops in which women only are
employed, and 490 in which both men and women work together, giving
a total of 7,094 women. In 361 factories there are 11,881 women
employed.