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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 1,337, but this number varies with each six monthly return, see
Table A, page 127, and Tables C and D, pages 130 and 131.
The places where the outworkers are employed were all of them
inspected twice during the year, some more frequently.
See Miss Tattersall's report, pages 243 and 244, and the Sanitary
Inspectors' reports, pages 200, 203, 209, 219, 222, 232 and 238.
For outworkers connected with infectious cases, see page 61.
Trade Boards Act, 1909. (seh: page186).
Proposed Abolition of Child Labour.
Before the Labour Exchanges Act, 1909, became law the Council,
upon the recommendation of the General Purposes Committee, passed a
resolution urging upon His Majesty's Government the promotion of
legislation for the abolition of child labour, whether half time or otherwise,
up to 16 years of age.
A special form is submitted by the. Secretary of State for the guidance
of Medical Officers of Health (see pages 130 to 133) 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 without 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 far 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 on—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.
* To wit, in Table A, under "Laundries, Domestic Workshops," there were 18 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.