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Workplaces.— These include restaurant kitchens, cab and omnibus yards,
laundries and domestic workshops, and home workplaces.
Domestic Workshops and Home Workplaces.— The Woman Inspector has 226
of these on the Register, of which 223 inspections and 1 re-inspection after
notice were made. These places vary in number from year to year, and
according to the season of the year.
Laundries.— On the Register are 90 laundries at which the Woman Inspector
made 104 inspections and 17 re-inspections.
Restaurant Kitchens.— Of these the Men Inspectors had 63 and the Woman
Inspector 157 on the Registers. At the former 96 inspections and 118 reinspections
were made, and at the latter 68 inspections and 2 re-inspections.
Bakehouses.— At the commencement of the year there were 178 workshopbakehouses.
Of these and of the three factory bakehouses, and the three bakehouses
in hotels, 298 inspections and 345 re-inspections were made. This large
number of re-inspections was part of the work in connection with certifying
underground bakehouses.
Sanitary Conveniences in Factories and Workshops.— Under § 7, Drainage, will
be found a note upon the structural requirements of sanitary conveniences in
factories and workshops.
Home Work.—The following circular letter was sent to the occupiers of all
factories, workshops, and workplaces in St. Pancras :—
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF ST. PANCRAS.
Public Health Department.
Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
To
Sir,
Home Work.
The provisions regulating out-workers having been amended and supplemented
by the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1, Edward VII.), your
particular attention is directed to the following sections of the Act, which came
into force on the First of January, 1902, and to the Special Order of the
Secretary of State made thereunder.