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plant. Usually a visit by the Inspector or a letter from the Medical Officer of
Health secures immediate abatement of the nuisance.
In accordance with its powers under the Public Health (Smoke Abatement)
Act, 1926, the Council made a small contribution towards the cost of the work
for smoke abatement carried on by the National Smoke Abatement Society.
Inspection of Workshops, etc.
The routine inspection of factories, workshops and workplaces has been carried
out during the year. 461 factories were inspected, 365 workshops and 4,099
workplaces.
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 38 premises no longer used
for the purpose for which they had been registered were removed from the register of
workshops. In some cases, owing to the introduction of machinery, former "workshops"
had become "factories" and the necessary transfer to the factory register was effected.
Variations in the staff employed were also frequently reported. During the year 46
workshops were added to the register.
At the end of the year there were 619 workshops on the register.
373 employed men only,
42 employed women only, and
204 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. At the end of the year 496 factories were