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WORKPLACES.
Workplaces include any place where work is done permanently,
and where people assemble together to do work permanently of
some kind or other. The kitchens of restaurants, etc., though they are
not workshops, come within the meaning of the term "workplace."
The number of workplaces on the register at the end of the year
was 195 (including food premises, kitchens, etc.) with 321 rooms.
Inspections for the year numbered 260 and 16 notices were served.
These premises include stables, builders' yards, restaurants,
kitchens, cinema theatres, etc.
OUTWORKERS.
The number of premises on the register at the end of the year was
767, using 812 rooms. The number added during the year was 72
and cancelled 55.
The number of inspections for the year was 151 and 5 notices
were served.
The lists received from employers in the borough numbered 75, giving
the names and addresses of 445 persons employed.
In no case was it necessary to take legal proceedings against
employers for failing to make the necessary return of outworkers employed
by them.
In 18 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.
This branch of Public Health Administration is an extremely
important one, and frequent inspections are necessary, both with a view
to remedying sanitary defects and also to ensure against the possibility
of disease being spread by the transmission of infected work
from one place to another.
Premises where Food is Prepared for Sale.
These premises were kept under supervision during the year.
The number of inspections was 232, and include hotel kitchens,
restaurant kitchens, coffee shops, eating houses, fried fish shops, eel pie
shops, oyster bars, ham and beef cooking, sausage making, meat
chopping, etc., or any place where food is cooked or prepared for sale
to the public, or intended for human consumption.