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5. As to Overcrowding.
The cubic capacities of the different workrooms were,
naturally, found to vary considerably, and in 9 workrooms
(i.e., 7.8 per cent.), overcrowding was found to
exist.
In addition to inspecting the above workshops wherein
females were employed, the special work done by the Female
Inspectors in connection with outworkers, etc., is dealt with
on pages 138-140.
The inspections made during 1910 in connection with the
10 factories were made with a view to seeing if the requirements
of the Acts as to w.c. accommodation for the employees
had been complied with. This is the only duty in
regard to factories that falls to the Sanitary Inspector. In
the 10 factories there were found to be 46 workrooms,
wherein were employed, at the time of inspection, 287
persons, 8 young persons (6 males and 2 females), and 279
adults (245 males and 34 females).
In addition to the 10 factories and 115 new workshops
added during 1910 to the Register and inspected, 507 other
workshop inspections and 140 re-inspections have been
made, and visits paid to 78 workshops in connection with
which the occupiers were found to have removed, or no
workers to be at work.
The importance of workshops and workplaces being kept
under constant supervision is now admitted by all, and the
details tabulated in the present Report go to show the great
increase of work thrown upon a Sanitary or Health
Authority in the systematic carrying out of the provisions
of the Factory and Workshop Acts. In this connection,
the value of the work of the Female Sanitary Inspectors is
noteworthy (vide Report dealing with this particular work,
pp. 134-137).