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Workshops.
Some two years ago it was my pleasure in submitting my
annual report to include a considerable amount of information
upon this subject, which was at that time the more interesting
as the new Act relating to workshops had just come
into effect. I refer to the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895,
the principal heads of which, in a brief summary, I then laid
before you.
In my report of the year 1895, I also included a tabulated
statement which indicated the localities of the workshops,
together with the various trades carried on therein; this statement
being prepared from the Register of Workshops kept by
the Sanitary Inspectors.
It has recently been found necessary, in consequence of the
many removals of occupiers and new workshops being
established, to prepare an amended register, which is now
completed to date.
In this report I now submit to you an analysis of the various
trades carried on, together with the distribution of the workshops
in the different wards throughout the Hamlet.
By section 41 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895, the
occupiers of every workshop are compelled to notify to the
Factory Inspector the address at which his work is carried on.
Such notice must be immediately forwarded to the Sanitary
Authority of the district in which the workshop is situate.
These notices have been duly received from time to time, but
it is found that in almost every case the workshops notified are
already under our supervision.
By section 26 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, it is
my duty to give written notice to the Factory Inspector of the
district of any workshop in which any child, young person, or
woman is employed; such notices have been duly forwarded.
Under section 22 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895,
laundries are now declared to be workshops, and consequently
are under our supervision. This has caused a slight increase