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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
The card system of registering workshops has proved most
satisfactory, and a complete register is now kept of all workshops,
factories, workplaces, and outworkers' premises. The inspections
made during the year are also noted on the card as well as the result
of such inspections.
The Tables in this portion of the Report are similar to those used
in 1903, with the exception of Tables LVI., LVII. and LVIII., which
are now inserted on forms supplied by the Home Office.
The whole of the work done is summarised in the Tables, more
especially in the extended Tables.
The total number of workshops on the register was 1,649, including
159 retail bakehouses, 130 workshop laundries, 282 domestic
workshops, and 1,078 other workshops, but not including 238 factories,
867 workplaces, and 233 outworkers' premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces and outworkers'
premises, there are now on the register 2,987 premises, an increase of
311 compared with 1903.
The total number of inspections made during the year was 4,946,
compared with 5,554 in 1903.
The decrease in the number of inspections is almost wholly due to
the fact that in 1904 the total number of inspections of bakehouses
was only 381, compared with 1,536 in 1903. The large number of
inspections of these in 1903 was due to the fact that underground
bakehouses were dealt with in that year for certificates.
The total number of notices served during the year was 465,
422 intimation and 43 statutory, a decrease of 51 intimation and 25
statutory compared with 1903.
The total number of prosecutions was three, two with respect to
workshops and one in respect of a workplace.