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Outworkers

During the year, sixty inspections of outworkers' premises
were made, but in no case was action necessary to prevent work being
carried on in unwholesome premises.
No instance of infectious disease occurring in premises,
where home work is carried on, was reported during the year.
Basement bakehouses
The Factories Act, 1937, (Section 54), requires the Council
to inspect in every fifth year all basement bakehouses in the borough
for which certificates of suitability have been issued. The
certificates continue to operate if the Council are satisfied that the
bakehouses are still suitable.
When the last quinquennial review was made in 1953, there
were twenty-eight certificates of suitability in force. Thirteen
of these were withdrawn* and another nine bakehouses have voluntarily
closed since then, so that the present time there are six basement
bakehouses in use in the borough. They are as follows:-
151, Earl8 Court Road
178, Fulham Road
65, Golborne Road
79, Golborne Road
139, Portland Road
46, Walton Street
These six bakehouses were inspected in 1958, in accordance
with the quinquennial review, and were found to be satisfactory in
all respects. The occupiers were informed that the certificates of
suitability will continue to operate until the next review.
Register of Factories
Section 8 of the Factories Act, 1937, requires the Council to
keep a list of all factories within the borough with respect to which
the duty of enforcing the provisions of the Factories Acts is imposed
upon them.
The following table gives a summary of the factories on the
Council's register at the end of the year, indicating the types of
business carried on, whether or not mechanical power is used, and
where situated, i»e» North or South Kensington s-