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"Where it appears to the Inspector of Factories that there is any
neglect or default in relation to any drain, water-closet, water
supply, nuisance, or other matter in connection with workshops,
remediable under the Public Health Acts, it is his duty to give
notice of such nuisance to the Sanitary Authority, and it is the duty
of the Sanitary Authority to inform the Inspector of the proceedings
taken in consequence, and if no proceedings are taken within one
month, His Majesty's Inspector may take proceedings as if he were
the Sanitary Authority, and is entitled to recover the expenses he
incurs in and about the proceedings from the Sanitary Authority."
In each of the cases reported an inspection has been made, the
defects where found were remedied, and the results reported to the
Inspector of Factories.
Outworkers.—A separate register of outworkers is required to be
kept, and all those resident in the City whose names have been
received have been entered; the number on the register at the end
of the year was 1,183.
I anticipate the above figures represent but a very small proportion
of the actual number of outworkers receiving work from
employers within the City, and that during 1902 the lists will be
more complete. Section 107 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901
requires every occupier of every factory and workshop, and every
contractor employed by any such occupier, to send on or before the
1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year copies
of lists, showing the names and addresses of all persons directly
employed by him, and the places where they are employed, to the
District Council of the district where such workshop is situate, and
every District Council shall cause the lists received in pursuance of
this section to be examined, and shall furnish the name and place of
employment of every outworker included in any such list, whose
place of employment is outside its district to the Council of the
District in which his place of employment is.
With the great increase in the number of workshops and workplaces
within the City the present staff has been unable to cope,
indeed it has been found totally inadequate to deal with the additional
duties imposed upon the Sanitary Authority by the Factory and
Workshops Act, and the transference from the London County
Council of the duties connected with the orders regulating dairies,
cowsheds, milkshops, slaughter-houses, and offensive trades.
To carry out these duties thoroughly efficiently, and to maintain
the standard of excellence which has been the aim of the department,
it will be necessary to provide some temporary help to assist in
the inspection and registration of workplaces, and to catch up with