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legal proceedings, or otherwise" as a factory inspector has
under the principal Act, i.e., the Act of 1878. The powers of the
Sanitary Authority, in regard to the inspection and supervision
of workshops, in order to the enforcement of the law, would
thus appear to be ample. But lest these powers should be
allowed to fall into desuetude, or be wilfully neglected, power
is given, by sections 1 and 2 of the Factory and Workshop Act .
1891 which enables the factory inspector to supersede a defaulting
Authority in the execution of their duties in respect of
workshops or laundries; and to recover from the Authority, in
whose district the workshops or laundries are situated, "all
such expenses in and about any proceedings as he
may incur."
With a view to the information of your Vestry, I, with
the assistance of Miss Squire, prepared, in December, 1895
for a sub-committee of the Sanitary Committee, a report or
"The Duties of the Sanitary Authority with respect to Workshops,"
a subject, to which, in my sixth report for 1895, attention
had been drawn. The report was approved by the subcommittee,
adopted by the Sanitary Committee, and accepted
by your Vestry as a correct statement of the powers and
duties of the Sanitary Authority under the Acts. It read?
as follows:—
'The duties of the Sanitary Authority, in London, with respect to
Factories, Workshops, Laundries, &c., are set out in the several Factory
and Workshop Acts, 1878 to 1895, and in the Public Health (London)
Act, 1891.
'For the sake of clearness it may be well to give here the definition
of a Workshop as set out in the Factory and Workshop Aot, 1878 (the
"principal Act "), section 93 (1) (2), as follows:—
"The expression 'workshop' means—
(1) Any premises or places named in part two of the fourth
schedule to this Act. which is not a factory within the meaning of
this Act.
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1878, sec. 93.