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The Mutual Registration of Assistance Society (a branch of the Charity Organisation Society)
have been of considerable help to the Council's Milk Sub-Committee in providing information
of the assistance being given by other bodies to applicants for milk at a reduced price or free of
cost, and the Council acknowledge the value of the work by making an annual grant of £10 to the
Society.
The Council's Milk Sub-Committee work in close co-operation with the Board of Guardians
and a scheme has been formulated whereby milk and dinners recommended by the Milk SubCommittee
are supplied by the Board to certain nursing mothers who are already in receipt of Poor
Law relief. This scheme obviates the undesirable practice of a person being granted a somewhat
similar form of relief by two different authorities.

NOTE.— The figures for fresh milk supplied by the Guardians after recommendation by the Milk Sub-Committee cannot be given separately.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, requires the Medical Officer of Health of
every District Council to report specifically on the workshops and workplaces in his district, and
to send a copy of his annual report to the Secretary of State. The total number of workshops on
the Council's register is 1,451. Workshops where men only are employed are placed under the
supervision of the Sanitary Inspector in whose district they are situated; workshops where women
are employed are inspected by the Women Health Officers, who also visit the premises of
home-workers and inspect the sanitary conveniences reserved for women in railway stations and
other public places in Kensington. The factories in the Borough number 279, and are inspected
and regulated by H.M. Inspectors under the Home Office. The Sanitary Inspectors of the
Borough Council are, however, required to ensure the provision of suitable and sufficient sanitary
conveniences in factories as well as in workshops.
MEN'S WORKSHOPS.
At the end of the year, the registered workshops at which men alone were employed numbered
928. The factories at which men alone were employed numbered 216. It should be noted that
by Section 157, the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, relating to temperature,
drainage of floors, the exhibition of abstracts and certain other matters do not apply to workshops
conducted on the system of not employing children, young persons or women. In London, both in
factories and workshops, the provision of sanitary conveniences is regulated by Section 38 of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, the standard adopted being that required by the Sanitary
Accommodation Order of 4th February, 1903.
Accommodation Order of 4th February, 1903. The following table shows the various trades and
occupations carried on in registered workshops and factories where men alone are employed:—