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RAG FLOCK ACT, 1911.
No samples were taken for examination during the
year.
HOME WORKERS.
Of the 3,698 workmen and contractors whose
names appeared on the lists sent in by employers, 2,546
resided within the Borough. In 1920 the number was
much larger, being 3,438. This figure, 2,546, is
approximately double the number of individual
workers as in the majority of cases the same people are
notified in February and in August.
The number of visits paid to Home Workers'
dwellings was 2,845. The number of premises found
to be in an insanitary condition was 419, or 18 per cent,
of the premises inspected. Notices were served in 354
cases, the other 65 premises being already under notice
arising from other visits.
HOUSING.
In the Annual Report for 1920, the formation of a
special staff for housing was recorded. Subsequently,
this staff was depleted by the retirement of Mr. Foot
and Mr. Ainley, and after dispensing with the services
of the temporary staff there only remained a housing
inspector (Mr. A. S. Henley) and a general assistant
(Mr. W. H. Heron). As it is now evident that housing
work, in the special sense of the word, was likely to be
in abeyance for some time, the above-mentioned officers
were transferred to routine sanitary duties and the
housing section in 20, Patriot Square, was closed.