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by the Sanitary Authority. Accordingly many inspections
of workshops have been made and workshops
have been caused to be cleansed and additional
sanitary conveniences have been caused to be provided.
Under the Factory and Workshops Acts, 1878.1891,
the Home Secretary made an order dated October
31st, 1892, requiring the occupiers of certain factories and
workshops to keep lists of out.workers, to be open to
inspection by any officer of a sanitary authority, The
factories and workshops referred to are those in which the
following processes are carried on ;—The manufacture of
articles of wearing apparel, the manufacture of electro.plate,
cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work, and
the manufacture of files.
The Local Government Board thereupon issued a
circular to Sanitary Authorities calling their attention to
the order, and going on to say :—
"The Secretary of State informs the Board that he is anxious
that the Sanitary Authorities should give full publicity to tho
order in their districts, and follow it up by active steps for the
inspection of the workshops and houses in which the out.workers
are employed, in order that full effect may be given to the object
which Parliament had in view when passing the enactment under
which the order is issued.
"The Board trust that the Sanitary Authority will co.operate in
this matter to the utmost of its power. They should at onco take
measures to secure that tho order is made known to those whom it
affects, and the Medical Officer of Health and Sanitary Inspector
should be instructed from time to time to examine the lists, so
that they may become aware of the places in which out-workers in
the trades in question are employed.
"It is especially desirable that frequent inspection should bo
made of these places, so that prompt measures may be taken to
deal with any sanitary evils existing in them."
Accordingly copies of the order were served on all
factories and workshops in this district, coming under it,