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Under the 26th Section of the Factory and Workshop
Act, 1891, the District Inspector of Factories
forwards to the Sanitary Authority notices of new
workshops opened in the Parish. During the year
eight such notices have been received, the workrooms
being duly inspected and entered on the Register.
When a workshop is first inspected, all the workrooms
are measured, particulars entered in the
Register, and cards (one to be hung in each room)
issued to the proprietor indicating the number to be
employed therein. The total number of rooms so
inspected, measured, and entered in the Register during
the year was 51. The. District Inspector of Factories
also forwarded five complaints of insanitary conditions
in workrooms, all of dirty premises. 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 excluding
bake-houses, was 67.
More work was done under the Factory and Workshop
Acts during 1898, but even now the supervision
exercised cannot be deemed adequate. The work of
the Department connected with sickness, complaints,
relaying of drains, and nuisances, leaves but an inadequate
allowance of time for the supervision of
workshops and factories.
Smoke Nuisance.—The suppression of nuisance
from black smoke occupied a considerable amount of