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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
is 1,070, but this number varies with each six monthly return, see
Table A, page 145, and Tables C and D, pages 148 and 149.
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 259 and 260, and the Sanitary
Inspectors' reports, pages 218, 224, 237 and 248.
For outworkers connected with infectious cases, see page 80.
Factory and Workshop Act (1901) Amendment Bill.
A Bill was introduced into the House of Commons to regulate night
employment, and to prohibit week-end employment in certain factories
and workshops.
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 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—outworkers1 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 9 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.