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Infectious Disease.—Notices were received of the occurrence
of 3 cases of infectious disease (scarlet fever) in the homes of
workers in Finsbury and resident in other districts. These cases
were enquired into and suitable precautions adopted.
The Home Office.—Sixty-eight notices of occupation of
workshops were received from the Home Office during the year,
and 23 notices of complaint relating to the following matters:—
Sanitary conveniences, 10; dirty premises, 6; insufficient ventilation,
3; the discharging of fumes into workshop by gas stoves, 3;
structural defects, one notice.
The notices sent to the Home Office were as follows:—Abstract
of the Factory and Workshop Act not affixed, 25; Abstract of the
Factory and Workshop Act not affixed in a factory, or the Workshop
Abstract exhibited in a factory, 11; d'rty walls, 3; insufficient
ventilation, 4; lack of means of heating, 4; insufficient means
of lighting, 1; dangerous machinery, 1; w.c. accommodation., one
notice.
Prosecutions.—There was one prosecution—for failing to
alter and amend two w.c's. in a workshop. The defendant was
fined £1 and £2s. 0d. costs.
The Rag Flock Act, 1911.—Four samples of rag flock were
taken during the year. Three were found to comply with the
required standard of cleanliness, but the other was reported to
contain 130 parts of chlorine per 100,000 parts of flock. The
impugned sample, however, was declared to be a sample of cotton
seed flock. No specimens of rag flock were found on the
premises from which this last sample was taken. At one workshop,
newly established, where the repairing of furniture was
carried out, it was ascertained that old rag flock was being used
for insertion into various articles of furniture. A letter of caution,
a copy of the Rag Flock Act, and the regulations made thereunder,
were sent to the occupier.