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ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP
ACT, 1910.
Workshops:—There are in the borough 560 workshops,
containing 873 workrooms to which the provisions of the Factory
and Workshop Act apply. The number of workers found on
inspection amounted to 187S, of which 452 were men, 1058
women, and 369 young persons. The largest proportion of these
workers were engaged in the dressmaking, laundry, and millinery
trades, there being 1044 women, 333 young persons and 31 men
so employed. These premises are inspected by the women
sanitary inspectors (see "Work of women sanitary inspectors,"
page 66), together with the workshops employing women in other
trades. Only 14 women and 36 young persons were employed
in all other trades.
Domestic and Part Time Work Places. —There are 237
part-time and domestic workplaces, i.e., private houses, places
or rooms, where no power is used, and in which only the
occupiers themselves are employed. Besides these there are
49 restaurants and 40 stable yards, contractors' yards, &c.,
which might be termed workplaces. For the purpose of their
inspection a special clause was added to section 2 of the Public
Health (London) Act.
In addition to the above, there are 89 bakehouses in the
Borough, of which 20 are underground.
On the whole the sanitary condition of the workshops in
the Borough is very satisfactory.