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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 151 premises no longer used
for the purpose for which they had been registered were removed from the register of
workshops. In six cases, owing to the introduction of machinery, former "workshops'
had become "factories" and the necessary transfer to the factory register whs effected.
Variations in the staff employed were also frequently reported. During the year 80
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 Notices.
Factories 35 5
Workshops 51 7
Workplaces 73 11
159 23
Of the 623 workshops on the register at the end of the year
324 employed men only,
65 employed women only, and
231 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 418 factories had
been entered oil the register. Workshops are automatically converted, at a very small
cost, into factories by the installation of a small electric motor ; the health conditions
then may no longer be inspected by the Borough Council's staff except as regards
sanitary accommodation.