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workshops, workplaces, laundries and
outworkers.
As to the number and description of workshops on the registers
see Tables A and B, pages 98 and 99.
There are two registers of workshops kept, one for females,
and the other for males.
A register of bakehouses is also kept
The registered workshops were inspected two or three times
in the year, some every month.
The number of premises notified within the district as used by
outworkers in 651, but this number varies with each six monthly
return, see Table D, pages 101, 102 and 103.
The places where the outworkers are employed were inspected all
of them twice during the year, some more frequently.
See Miss Tattersall's report, pages 226 and 227, and the Sanitary
Inspector's reports, pages 173, 174, 180, 192, 197, 203, 205, 217
and 222.
For outworkers connected with infectious cases, see page 38.
The special form submitted by the Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health {see page 101) in preparing the report on
factories and workshops in pursuance of section 132 of the Factory and
Workshop Act 1901, did not come to hand until the end of the year, and
as far as possible, from the records, journals, registers and index files
kept, the return has been prepared.
In order that the form may be filled in without any difficulty from year
to year, the Sanitary Inspectors hare been urgently requested to give
full and complete descriptions of the premises visited when any work
is carried on, and to classify such premises in their note books before
handing them to the clerks for the particulars to be entered in the
Journals, registers and index files.*
It can be easily understood that the classification of premises where
work is executed will vary from time to time, according to the pressure
of work or the nature of the work carried oil—outworkers premises may
become domestic workshops, and also workshops, and even factories;
workshops may become factories; and workplaces may become workshops
or factories, between the visits of the Sanitary Inspectors.
Whilst this report is in course of preparation, many workshops and workplaces not
hitherto registered are being added to the respective registers and will consequently appear
in the Annual Report for 1905.
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