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District Council becomes aware thereof, ho shall forthwith give written
notice thereof to the Inspector for the district." The object of this
section is to secure that all new workshops in which protected persons
are employed, discovered by the officers of the local authority shall be
brought to the notice of the Factory Inspector, who supplies the
occupiers of workshops with the abstracts of the Act. The occupier of
a workshop is under legal obligation to give notice of his occupation of
the workshop to the Factory Inspector within a month after it has
begun, but owing to ignorance of the law, and for other reasons this
obligation is frequently left unfulfilled, and the inspector is informed
of the occupation by the local Medical Officer of Health. Pursuant to
this section 35 workshops were notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories
as being without the abstract as required.
Bakehouses.
At the end of 1911 there were 37 occupied bakehouses on the
register, 21 being underground, and 16 above ground. Three of the
bakehouses situated above ground use power and are therefore factories
Seventeen inspections were made in respect of the factory bakehouses,
182 inspections in respect of the workshop bakehouses, and 10
notices were served.
Towards the end of the year an underground room was found to be
used as a bakehouse, and as it had not been so used at the passing of the
Factory Act of 1901 the occupier was informed that the use of the room
as a bakehouse was illegal, and the occupation was discontinued in the
early part of the present year. One of the certified underground bakehouses
became unoccupied during 1911, thus reducing the number of
underground bakehouses from 22 to 21.