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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Factories and Workshops.
I am able to report that during the year 1909 there has been
a considerable increase in the amount of work carried out by the
Inspectors under the Factory and Workshops Act, and also that
the condition of all the factories ;md workshops in the Borough is
satisfactory.
There has again been some difficulty experienced in regard to
the lists of outworkers, and it was found necessary in one case to
take proceedings when the occupier was fined for failing to keep
a register of outworkers as required by the Act. It was also
necessary to issue circular letters to many employers reminding
them of the necessity of sending in these lists, and also that the
official form should be used for this purpose.
The Tables which follow are similar to those used in previous
Reports, and the whole of the work done by both male and female
Inspectors is there shown in a concise form.
The total number of workshops on the Register was 1,657,
including 140 retail bakehouses, 150 workshop laundries, 313
dressmakers' and milliners' premises, and 1,054 other workshops,
but not including 351 factories, 985 workplaces, and 312 outworkers'
premises.
Including all factories, workshops, workplaces, and outworkers'
premises, there were on the Register at the end of 1909
3,305 premises, compared with 3,347 in 1908, 3,281 in 1907, 3,096
in 1906, 3,045 in 1905, 2,987 in 1904, and 2,676 in 1903.
The total number of inspections made during the year was
6,531, compared with 5,801 in 1908, 6,048 in 1907, 5,997 111 190O,
4,933 in 1905, and 4,946 in 1904.
The total number of notices served was 597, 549 intimation
and 48 statutory, compared with 434 in 1908, 453 in 1907, 427 in
1906, 462 in 1905, and 465 in 1904.
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