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firm occupied three workrooms affording sufficient accommodation
for 17 persons—allowing the official minimum of 250 cubic feet
for each person. The number of persons actually found working
was 42, or two and a-half times the permissible legal number.
One room contained more than three times the maximum number
of persons allowed. In this room the amount of air space per
person was only 83 cubic feet for each adult.
Notices were served on the firm, and they took an adjoining
house, thereby abating the overcrowding.
Prosecutions.—There were two prosecutions—for failing to
provide sufficient w.c. accommodation and for failing to provide
a proper dustbin. There were convictions in both cases.
The following matters are presented in the form required by the
Home Office:—