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be employed in it, the card to be hung in the room.
The total number of rooms so inspected, measured,
and entered in the Register during the year was 42.
The District Inspector of Factories forwarded five
complaints of insanitary conditions in workrooms,
including 3 cases of dirty premises, one of overcrowding,
and one of defective sanitary fittings. The
matters complained of were remedied as soon as
brought to the notice of the occupiers of the workrooms.
The total number of inspections under the
Factory Acts was 158, excluding bake-houses, &c.
The working of the Factory and Workshop Acts
can hardly be called satisfactory. There is good
reason to believe that the seven new workrooms
reported through the Home Office do not represent
all the rooms opened in the course of the year, and it
is desirable that more inspections should be made by
the local officials. It has, however, been found
impracticable to do this, the time of the Vestry's
Staff being fully occupied with other work.
Manure Nuisance.—There was the usual recurrent
difficulty in connection with the manure during
the summer months, hay-harvest time. With that
exception, there was no cause for complaint, except
of effluvia from the removal of peat-moss manure.
There is no doubt that the use of this litter should be
put under more restrictive regulation. It is saturated
with urine and dung when removed from the stall(the
excremental matters forming a far larger