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WORKSHOPS.
Formerly the sanitary supervision (including overcrowding)
of all workshops was carried out by the Factory
Inspectors appointed by the Home Office, but now this
duty falls upon the Officers of Sanitary Authorities, and
this work in connection with the carrying out of the
Factory and Workshops Acts is so important that I have
incorporated in my Annual Report for 1897 a Special
Report on the Workshops of Lambeth. By this means,
the members of the Sanitary Committee and the Vestry
will understand the extra work thrown upon the Sanitary
Department in its endeavour to carry out conscientiously
and thoroughly these extra duties, as shewn
by the Register (which the Vestry now possesses) of all
known Workshops within the Parish.
On January 1st, 1896, the new Factory and Workshops
Act, 1895 (58 and 59 Vic., Cap. 37) came into operation,
and is intended as an Act to amend and extend the Law
relating to Factories and Workshops, and to consolidate,
without repealing (except in a very few particulars), all
previous Acts, viz., the Factory and Workshops Acts,
1878, 1883 and 1891, with which, therefore, the new Act
is to be construed in close conjunction. By virtue of
these special Factory and Workshops Acts, together with
the Factory and Workshop Clauses of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, the Vestry of Lambeth, as the
Sanitary Authority, have imposed upon them inter alia the
following duties as to Workshops (including Laundries):—
(a.) To see that every workshop is kept in a cleanly
state, and ventilated so as to render harmless any
gases, vapours, dust, or other impurities generated