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which is brought in covered carts to the Destructor in Church
Walk. Trade refuse is collected and disposed of on terms agreed
upon. The streets and yards are well scavenged.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
At the end of the year 1920, 394 factories, workshops and
workplaces were on the Register.
As the result of the inspection of the workrooms and workplaces
in the Borough, it was found that for the most part they
were in a satisfactory condition, and that the requirements of the
Factory and Workshops Act of 1901 were duly observed. There
are several hundred domestic workrooms in the Borough in
which textile material of various kinds is being dealt with.
A complete list of all out-workers has been kept in the office.
It is important that the lists of " outworkers" should be
obtained twice yearly and that the homes of outworkers should be
periodically inspected, more particularly when the work undertaken
deals with wearing apparel, textile material (curtains, etc.), used in
dwellings, and upholstery work. The Factories and Workshops
Act, 1901, makes provision for this.
1—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS
AND WORKPLACES.