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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON. 37
Number of inspections 694
„ visits 1,377
Letters written 81
Extra W.C. accommodation provided 1
Overcrowding abated 6
Premises cleansed 260
Ventilation improved 3
Number of outworkers 296
Premises notified to H.M. Inspector 16
,, „ from „ 2
Complaints from Home Office 1
There are now on the Register 204 Workshops, containing
693 workrooms, in which 2,284 males and 868 females are
employed. These numbers are exclusive of shops, offices and
Covent Garden Market.
Bakehouses.—The bakehouses have been regularly inspected.
The number in the District is now 27.
Laundries.—There are 18 in the District, and they have been
inspected from time to time.
Printing Offices have increased during the year to 113.
Tailors' workshops, to the number of 82, are on the Register,
but this is a constantly varying number, as those engaged in
this class of work in a small way, frequently change their place
of abode.
Ouhoorkers.—Your Board had under consideration a communication
from the Battersea Vestry, asking the views of the
Board as to an interchange of information relative to the addresses
of " outworkers " who, sometimes cscape sanitary supervision in
consequence of working in a district other than that in which
the work is given out; this interchange of information having
been suggested by the Factory Inspector of the Home Office.
It was resolved, that the Battersea Vestry be informed that
the Board consider that advantage would accrue if the HalfYearly
Returns made to the Home Office were distributed by the