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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 995. 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 homeworkers
and inspect the sanitary conveniences reserved for women in railway stations and other
public places in Kensington. The factories in the Borough number 247, and are inspected and
Tegulated 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.
Factories and Workshops where men are employed.—At the end of the year, the registered
workshops at which men were employed numbered 421. The factories at which men were
employed numbered 187, 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 bv the Sanitarv Accommodation Order of 4th Februarv.