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" With regard to the recommendation that home workers should
register their names and receive a certificate of the same, it might be
desirable to make it an offence to lend or transfer such certificate. It
would be well, also, to require a home worker to return his certificate
when he permanently gave up taking such work.
"Recommendation (b) makes it an offence for any person to employ
a home worker who has not produced a certificate of registration ; it
should also be an offence for an unregistered home worker to take such
work. It would be difficult to prove that an employer had not seen
what he believed to be a certificate."
Florists.—decision of the High Court (Hoare v. Robert Green, Ltd.)
has placed retail florists within the provisions of the Factory and
Workshops Act, 1901, but an Order of the Local Government Board
has since released them from some requirements as to hours of employment,
&c. The sanitary provisions still hold good. Besides the shops
in Covent Garden, there are twenty-six others which have been visited.
It appears from a decision by Mr. Mead, in a case taken by the Home
Office, that where a florist's establishment is installed in a hotel it is not
a " workshop" under the Act. This decision was founded on the
decision in a case in the Scottish High Court, in which it was held that
a laundry in a hotel was not under the Act; fresh legislation has now
remedied this defect. (See also Magistrate's judgment under " Bakehouses.")
Railway Waiting Fooms.—A special inspection has been made of
the ladies' waiting rooms and the sanitary accommodation attached
thereto in the various railway stations in Westminster. There are
nineteen stations, some being combined ones, but waiting rooms are not
provided at all of them. Improvements were found necessary at a
number of them.
Sanitary Accommodation for Women Clerks. — Several complaints
have been investigated, and additional accommodation provided. The
attention of architects and others is always called to the need of such
provision in new buildings where both sexes are likely to be employed.