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Overcrowding was found in 14 instances. In 9 cases the overcrowding
was abated at the request of the Inspector, but in 5 cases it
was found necessary to serve a written notice.
Abstract of the Act.
Section 128 of the Factory Act provides that an abstract of the
Act "shall be affixed at the entrance of every factory and workshop,
and in such other parts thereof " as the factory inspector may direct;
and Section 183 of the Act provides that " when any women, young
person, or child is employed in a workshop in which no abstract of this
Act is affixed as by this Act required, and the Medical Officer of Health
of the District Council becomes aware thereof, he shall forthwith give
written notice thereof to the Inspector for the district." The object
of this section is to secure that all new workshops in which protected
persons are employed, discovered by the officers of the local authority
shall be brought to the notice of the Factory Inspector, who supplies
the occupiers of workshops with the abstracts of the Act. The occupier
of a workshop is under legal obligation to give notice of his occupation
of the workshop to the1 Factory Inspector within a month after it has
begun, but owing to ignorance of the law, and for other reasons this
obligation is frequently left unfulfilled, and the inspector is informed
of the occupation by the local Medical Officer of Health. Pursuant to
this section 25 workshops were notified to II.M. Inspector of Factories
as being without the abstract as required.
Bakehouses.
At the end of 1910 there were 38 bakehouses on the register, 22
being underground, and 16 above ground. Three of the bakehouses
situated above ground use power and are therefore factories.
Three inspections were made in respect of the factory bakehouses,
and 70 inspections in respect of the workshop bakehouses.
In a considerable number of bakehouses, particularly those where
confectionery is made, the standard of cleanliness is not high, although
the conditions are hardly serious enough to constitute a contravention
of the Act. Bakehouses, like other places where food is prepared for
hnman consumption, need to be regulated by by-laws formulating in
detail the conditions as to cleanliness, &c., that should be observed.