View report page

24
It is found that changes frequently occur in the occupation of workshops. To
obtain information of such changes and further details of industrial conditions in the
Borough a large number of visits and inspections were made in addition to the routine
inspections mentioned above. As the result of these visits 123 premises no longer used
for the purpose for which they had been registered were removed from the register of
workshops. In eleven cases, owing to the introduction of machinery, former "workshops"
had become "factories" and the necessary transfer to the factory register was effected.
Variations in the staff employed were also frequently reported. During the year 173
workshops were added to the register.
It was necessary to serve the following notices for the abatement of sanitary
nuisances in factories, workshops and workplaces.
Intimation Notices. Statutory Noticcs.
Factories 38 6
Workshops 80 9
Workplaces 51 2
169 17
Of the 694 workshops on the register at the end of the year
373 employed men only,
62 employed women only, and
259 employed both men and women.
The number of employees is often very small and many of the workshops are in
tenement houses (houses let in lodgings).

Factories.
These visits also afforded an opportunity for extending and revising information
relating to "factories" in the Borough. Steps are being taken for the gradual
compilation of a register of such places, and at the end of the year 400 factories had