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The second schedule indicates the nature of defects found, and
in the main explains itself. The item of "other nuisances," which
includes such matters as defective roofs, dirty condition of walls and
ceilings, increased from 65 in 1914 to 70 last year.
Home work was found in 35 instances to be carried on in unwholesome
premises. These bad conditions were not usually of a
serious nature, as they referred chiefly to badly kept or untidy
premises, and in only 14 instances was it necessary to send a formal
notice to amend.
4.—REGISTERED WORKSHOPS.
Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.
Number.
46
Laundries
275
Clothing (wholesale and private)
Preparation of food
173
Building trades
68
101
Bakehouses
Miscellaneous
944
Total number of workshops on Register
1,607
5.—HTHERS MATTERS.
Class.
Number.
11
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Acts (s. 133, 1901)
Action taken in matters referred by H.M.
Inspector us remediable under the Public
Health Acts, but not under the Factory
and Workshop Acts (s.5, 1901)
Notified by H.M. Inspector
Reports (of action taken)*
sent to H.M. Inspector
17
16
Other
8
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101):—
In use at the end of the year
65
The cases of default of sending in lists of outworkers at the
proper time were duly reported to the Public Health Committee
half yearly, but an official letter always had the effect of bringing in
the list, and thus avoiding any necessity for prosecution.
No instances of home work being carried on at infected premises
were reported during the year. Every morning the list of notifications
is compared with the list of outworkers to see if any addresses
appear on both. There is, therefore, little chance of infectious
disease occurring in an outworker's home without our becoming
acquainted with it.
The number of factories and workshops shows an increase over
last year, but in all probability this is a temporary condition which
will come to an end with the war, a time which will bring changes
to almost all conditions of employment.
In spite of the war and the diminished staff, the sanitary
supervision of the Borough has been well maintained, but only the
more essential requisites have been attended to; and even with