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workshops were added to the register, so that at the end of 1910,
the total number of these premises was 600, in which were employed
2,134 persons (1,123 males, 1,011 females).
Of the 123 new workshops added to the register during 1910,
64 were notified to H.M. Inspector, in pursuance of Sec. 133 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which directs that " when
any woman, young person or child is employed in a workshop in
which no abstract of the Act is affixed, as by this Act required, and
the Medical Officer of Health becomes aware thereof, he shall
forthwith give written notice thereof to the Inspector for the
district."

Sanitary Condition of Workshops.
The local authority is the authority responsible for the sanitary
condition of workshops and workplaces in its district. Sanitary
conditions include (a) cleanliness, (b) air space, (c) ventilation,
(d) drainage of floors, (e) provision of sanitary accommodation.
During the year 1910, 3,645 visits of inspection (2,714 by the
male and 931 by the female workshops inspectors) to factories,
workshops and workplaces, exclusive of visits to home workers,
have been made by the workshops inspectors. The following is
a tabulated statement of the work carried out in connection with
workshop inspection during 1910, so far as it admits of tabulation—