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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
is 1,743, but this number varies with each six monthly return, see
Table A, page 119, and Tables C and D, pages 122 and 123.
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 244 and 245, and the Sanitary
Inspectors' reports, pages 197, 201, 207, 221 and 230.
For outworkers connected with infectious cases, see page 71.
A special form is submitted by the Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health (see pages 122 to 125) in preparing the
report on factories and workshops in pursuance of Section 132 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
In order that the form may be filled in ivithout any difficulty from
year to year, the Sanitary Inspectors have been urgently requested to give
full and complete descriptions of the premises visited where 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 t)ie 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 on—outworkers' premises may
become domestic ivorkshops, and also workshops,* and even factories; workshops
may become factories; and workplaces may become workshops olfactories,
between the visits of the Sanitary Inspectors.
* To wit, in Table A, under " Laundries Domestic Workshops," there were 15 on the
register at the end of the year, but during the year, especially in the summer, some of
these premises were "Workshop Laundries," and the inspections would come under
Workshop Laundries.