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The usual register was kept posted up for the year.
Factories. The number of factories on the register at the
end of the year (including Bakehouses and Laundries) numbered
110, involving 252 rooms. Fifteen were added during the year and
4 removed, leaving on the register 8 Laundries, 3 Bakehouses,
and 98 other Factories. 109 Inspections were made, and 21 written
intimations served.
Workshops. The number of Workshops on the register at
the end of the year (including Laundries, Bakehouses and Domestic
workshops) was 266 with 404 rooms.
The number of Inspections was, Laundries 6, Bakehouses 231 ;
other workshops (including domestic workshops) 167.
The work carried on in the various workshops consisted, in
addition to Bakehouses and Laundries, of Dressmaking, Millinery,
Shirtmaking, Tailoring, and Smiths' and Wheelwright's work.
Workplaces. The number of Workplaces on the register
at the close of the year was (including Food premises) 167, with
302 rooms. Number of Inspections 169, 21 notices being served
for the remedying of various defects.
Premises include Stables, Builders' Yards, Restaurant
Kitchens, &c. &c.
Outworkers. The number of premises on the register at
the close of the year was 475, using 479 rooms. The number
cancelled during the year was 102, 114 being added.
Number of Inspections 286, 6 notices being served for various
defects.
Lists received from employers numbered 86, showing 538
persons employed.
The number of references received from other authorities was
355, and forwarded to other authorities 287.
In three instances work was found in connection with infected
premises and in each case the necessary disinfection of the materials
was carried out before being returned to the employers.
This work is of a varied and fluctuating character, and the outworkers
complain very frequently of the small remuneration they
receive, and often give up the work on that account, and so cause a
continual alteration of the registers.