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of outworkers should be inspected and certified by factory inspectors,
but such inspection could be but of a limited character, whereas the
inspection by the officers of the local authority embraces not only
the workroom but the whole house. Thus improvements can be
effected in the hygienic surroundings of the house as well as of the
workroom which is only an incidental part of the house.
Sixty visits were paid to Domestic Workrooms, i.e., where no work
was being taken in from another business firm, and no one outside the
family was ever employed.

In addition, in connection with Laundries there were cases in two
of the above three classes :—
(a) (b) (c)
In Receiving Shops
Mangling only — Scarlet Fever (1) —
Washing, Ironing, &c. .. Scarlet Fever (1) — —
A Magistrate's Order was obtained in respect of a laundry in which
the drainage of the floor and other matters were defective.
The Factory and Workshops Act, 1907.— The law with regard to
public laundries is modified by this Act. In future "laundries carried
on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, or carried on as ancillary
to another business or incidentally to the purposes of any public