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The number of new female outworkers' premises (not previously
registered) registered during the year was 28, and there
were 40 removed from the register.
Inspections of female outworkers' premises were made by
the woman workshops' inspector (Miss Round) to the number of
638. It was found necessary in 6 cases to serve notices under the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, to remedy defects. Seven
cases of infectious disease, viz.: diphtheria 3, scarlet fever 3,
encephalitis lethargica 1, were notified from female outworkers'
premises. Such precautionary measures as were necessary were
taken to prevent spread of infection in these cases.
Legal proceedings were instituted against a firm who failed
to send in the list of outworkers employed by them at the period
prescribed by the Act, vide p 83.
Bakehouses.
There were 63 bakehouses on the register at the end of 1930.
Of these 47 use power, and are therefore technically factories.
Forty-one of the bakehouses are above ground, and 22 are under
ground. Six premises were removed from the register, they
being no longer used as bakehouses.
Inspections made during the year were 246, and 22 intimation
and 2 statutory notices were served, mainly for failure to carry
out the half-yearly lime-whiting of the bakehouses within the
statutory period.
Warehouses and Wharves.
At the end of 1930, there were 52 premises on the register,
including railway yards. These premises were systematically
inspected during the year, and 73 inspections were made. Nine
intimation and 3 statutory notices were served to remedy nuisances
found on inspection.