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FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES,
OUTWORKERS, etc.
These premises were periodically inspected during the year, special
attention being paid to the Sanitary accommodation provided for the
use of persons employed. Sec. 38 P.H. (L) Act, 1891, etc., also to
cleansing the reception, checking and issuing of outworkers' lists and
the keeping of the necessary registers.
The outworkers' register entails much work owing to the constant
change of address and to removals.
Factories.
The number of Factories on the register at the end of the year was
231, made up as follows:—Factory Laundries 3, Factory Bakehouses
16, other Factories 212. Other Factories include Offensive Businesses
2, Food Premises 22. The number of Factories shows a net increase
of 5.
Workshops.
The number of Workshops on the register at the end of the year
was 173 made up as follows:—Workshop Laundries 4, Workshop
Bakehouses 43, other Workshops 126.
Workplaces.
Workplace includes any place where work is done permanently and
where people assemble together to work permanently. The kitchens
of Restaurants, Hotels, etc., come within the meaning of the term
" Workplace " also included are Stables, Builders'Yards, Timber Stores,
etc. The number of Workplaces on the register at the end of the year
was 199 ; this number includes 126 food premises.
Number of visits paid 510.
Outworkers.
This system of home work is in a fluctuating condition, one cause
being the poor remuneration and a continual alteration of the registers
results, though not solely from this cause but also from the frequent
removal of the outworkers to different contractors and to change of
address and change of employers.
The cases of Infectious disease notified each day are checked with
the outworkers' lists.
Four cases of Infectious disease occurred on the premises of outworkers
during the year. In only one case was wearing apparel found
in course of manufacture. Three dresses were removed from the house,
disinfected and returned to the factory.
The number of outworkers on the register at the end of the year
was 301; forty new names were added and 39 names removed from
the register.
There has been a marked decline in the numbers of persons actively
employed during the year and since making up this report.