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On the recommendation of the Public Health Committee the Council agreed
with the suggestion and notified the London County Council accordingly.
A suitable clause has now been generally agreed and it is hoped that the
provision will be included in the next L.C.C. (General Powers) Bill.
Inspection of Workshops, etc.
The routine inspection of factories, workshops and workplaces has been carried
out during the year. 354 factories were inspected, 589 workshops and 2,905
workplaces.
It is found that changes frequently occur in the occupation of workshops. To
obtain information of such changes and further details of industrial conditions in the
Borough a large number of visits and inspections were made in addition to the routine
inspections mentioned above. As the result of these visits 575 premises no longer used
for the purpose for which they had been registered were removed from the register of
workshops. In some cases, owing to the introduction of machinery, former "workshops''
had become "factories" and in 33 such cases the necessary transfer to the factory
register was effected. Variations in the staff employed were also frequently reported.
Of the 744 workshops on the register at the end of the year
386 employed men only,
106 employed women only, and
252 employed both men and women.
The number of employees is often very small and many of the workshops are in
tenement houses.