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ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP
ACT, 1901.
Workshops:—There are in the borough 577 workshops,
containing 918 workrooms to which provisions of the Factory
and Workshop Act apply. The number of workers found on
inspection amounted to 2194, of which 496 were men, 1343
women, and 355 young persons. The largest proportion of these
workers were engaged in the dressmaking, laundry, and millinery
trades, there being 1325 women, 300 young persons and 35 men
so employed. These premises are inspected by the women
sanitary inspectors (see work of women sanitary inspectors, page
79), together with the workshops employing women in other
trades. Only 18 women and 55 young persons were employed
in all other trades. In workshops employing male labour, 496
men were engaged.
Domestic and Part Time Work Places.—There are 321
part-time and domestic workplaces, i.e., private houses, places
or rooms, where no power is used, and in which only the
occupiers themselves are employed. Besides these there are
50 restaurants and 47 stable yards, contractors' yards, &c.,
which might be termed workplaces. For the purpose of their
inspection a special clause was added to section 2 of the Public
Health (London) Act.
In addition to the above there are 93 bakehouses in the
Borough, of which 20 are underground.
On the whole the sanitary condition of the workshops in
the Borough is very satisfactory. Where defects were found a
verbal complaint to the owner was very often sufficient for the
immediate remedy of same.