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E.—FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
By Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the duty
of reporting each year on the administration of that Act in workshops
and workplaces in the district is placed upon the Medical
Officer of Health of every District Council. A copy of the Annual
Report, or such part of it as deals with the administration of the
Act, is to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, and certain tables, framed by the Secretary of State,
are to be filled up and sent to the Secretary. These tables will
be found at pages 117-122, while this part of the Report will
be devoted to a description of the work in connection with workshops,
etc., generally.
A special inspector (Inspector Peverett), it may be mentioned, is
told off for this work, and the Council's women inspectors (Mrs.
Greenwood and Miss Jones) perform certain duties in connection
with home workers, inspecting workshops, etc., in which women only
are employed. In this connection it may be mentioned that there
are in the Borough 114 workshops in which women only are employed,
and 537 in which men and women work together, the total number
of women employed being 7,436. Women to the number of 12,760
are employed in 402 of the factories.
During the year 261 workshops and 35 workplaces, a total of 296,
were placed upon the register, while 160 obsolete entries were removed.
These changes make the total on the register 2059. The
number of factories is 828; 128 having been added to and 17 removed
from the register. The following table is a summary of all
premises in the Borough in which work is carried on :—
Workshops and Workplaces 2059
Factories 828
Bakehouses 62
Restaurant Kitchens, &c 269
Ice-cream Premises 75
Home Workers' Premises 386
Stables 500
Total 4179