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provided. Much better attention is now paid to the question of
sanitary accommodation for workpeople than formerly, owing to a
continual application of the provisions of the Acts relating thereto.
The registers were kept posted up for the year.
Factories. The number of factories on the register at the
end of the year, including bakehouses and laundries, was 123 involving
273 rooms. 159 inspections were made and 18 written
intimations served.
Workshops. The number of workshops on the register at
the end of the year was 264 (including bakehouses and laundries and
domestic workshops) with 410 rooms.
The work carried on in the various workshops consisted in
additions to bakehouses and laundries: of dressmaking, millinery,
shirt and collar making, tailoring, mantles and blouse making, wheelwrights'
and smiths' work, cycle and motor work.
The number of inspections was 439. Number of written intimations
served 15.
Workplaces. The number of workplaces on the register at
the end of the year was 170 (including food premises, kitchens, etc.)
with 315 rooms. Inspections for the year numbered 200, and 30
intimations were served.
These premises include stables, builders' yards, restaurants,
kitchens, etc.
Outworkers. The number of premises on the register at the
end of the year was 565, using 572 rooms. The number added during
the year was 173 and cancelled 83.
The number of inspections for the year was 258 and 6 intimations
served.
The lists received from employers in the borough numbered 76,
giving the names and addresses of 532 persons employed.
The references received from other authorities were 629, and
forwarded to other authorities 310.
In three instances work was found in connection with infected
premises, and in each case the necessary disinfection of the materials
on hand was carried out, before being returned to the employers of
the outworkers in question.