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Board refrained from making any bye-laws on the subject,
as they did not approve of the application of a more
stringent law to a house simply because lodgers are
received into it.
As was anticipated, the Act has cast great additional
work and expense upon Sanitary Authorities. For
instance the expenditure by the Board for disinfecting
purposes during the past year was £823 17s 9d., against
£272 10s. for the previous year.
Factory and
Workshop Acts.
Under the provisions of these Acts an order
issued by the Home Secretary came into force in
November last requiring the occupier of every factory and
workshop engaged in the following businesses, viz.:—
The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel;
The manufacture of electro-plate;
Cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work;
The manufacture of files;
to keep lists containing particulars of persons employed
outside the factory or workshop. The object of the order
is that frequent inspections should be made of the places
(usually the outworkers' dwellings) in which outworkers
in the trades in question carry on their work so that
prompt measures may be taken to deal with any sanitary
defects there. The Board have given instructions for the
lists to be examined by their officers, and notice given to
the Sanitary Authorities of other Districts of persons
residing in such Districts who do work for factories, &c.,
in this District. They have also addressed a communication
to all the Sanitary Authorities in the
Metropolis asking them to furnish the Board in the same
way Avith the names and addresses of persons residing in
this District who do work for factories, &c., situate iu
other Sanitary Districts. Most of the Sanitary Authorities
written to have promised to do so, and thus co-operate
in carrying the order into effect.