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Table: APPENDIX I.TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY j AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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APPENDIX I.

TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY j AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

Premises, Particulars, Class, &c.					City of London	Battersea.	Bermondsey.	Bethnal Green.	Camberwell.	Chelsea.	Deptford.	Finsbury.	Fulham.	Greenwich.	Hackney.	Hammersmith	Hampstead.	Holborn.	Islington.	Kensington.	Lambeth.	Lewisham.	Paddington.	Poplar.	St. Marylebont	St. Pancras.	Shoreditch.	South wark.	Stepney.	Stoke Newington.	Wandsworth.	City of Westminster.	Woolwich.
Inspections.
Factories (including factory laundries)					4,780	702	107	363	359	3	159	1,056	105	61	44	801	78	107	429	117	10	145	195	58	15	109	440	149	99	35	725	111	75
Workshops (including workshop laundries)					5,802	1,947	131	4,904	2,545	953	439	1,911	520	150	2,176	1,287	763	680	1,870	2,942	772	1,554	2,622	1,146	1,372	816	3,182	1,550	5,353	202	3,346	3,780	196
Workplaces (other than outworkers premises)					1,026	996	93a	760	845	- a	200	413a	l53	111	a	817	1,010	2,444	2,324	73a	164	410	134a	1,220	2,305	321	712	2,656	88a	17a	1,828	1,470	102
Total (Inspections)					1,608	3,645	331a	6,027	3,749	956a	798	3,380a	778	322a	2,220a	2,905	1851	3,231	4,623	3,132a	946	2,109	2,951a	2,424	3,692	1,246	4,334	4,335	5,540a	254a	5,899	5,361	373
2. Defects Found.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.																									152	100	248	726	937	7	184	941	42
Want of cleanliness					922	89	51	428	46	11	253	208	40	62	145	112	23	62	490	165	157	139	12	496	16	5	1	26	92	-	5	223	10
Want of ventilation					72	3	1	16	2	-	253	14	-	2	24	2	10	16	19	38	5	-	-	2	4	²	-	9	39	-	1	44	2
Overcrowding					26	1	3	3	5	11	3	8	1	-	14	-	14	2	26	10	9	8	1	4	19	3		14	12	-	-	17	1
Want of drainage of floors					-	4	2	-	4	--	-	3	-	-	8	18	-	-	113	12	-	-	-	-	98	¹⁵	23	995	267	42	387	643	28
Other nuisances					1,491	196	78	690	41	11	149	559	5	23	112	137	45	146	449	86	160	43	6	-	6	⁶	8	19	18	3	16	34	9
Sanitary accommodation	Insufficient				40	6	11	15	2	-	3	17	3	-	4	4	2	1	31	9	-	1	3	3	34	¹⁰	55	34	138	15	110	513	9
	Unsuitable				2,136	62	9	102	28	-	63	285	4	12	94	25	5	71	502	68	322	67	26	1	28	6	8	7	31	-	6	76	3
	Not separate for sexes				86	-	6	4	-	3	-	9	2	-	7	-	-	12	8	5	1	1	2
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act.																								-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	20	-	-	26	33	.	_	71		11
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses (ss. 97-100)					-	25	2	-	-	14	-	-	5	10	-	98	-	8	-	14	-	-	-	-	27	1					-
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork)					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	80	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total (defects found)					5,373	386	163	1,258	128	50	474	1,183	60	109	408	396	99	318	1,638	407	654	279	50	7136	410	181	343	1,8306	1,605	6/	720	2,491	95
3. Homework.
Outworkers Lists (s. 107).																								130	132	34	98	150	258	52	132	658	56
Received twice in the year from employers	Number of Lists				1,455	81	90	188	165	79	74	250	22	26	404	56	142	130	368	122	37	68	144	100	168	18	79	-		-	83	-	-
	Outworkers.			Contractors Workmen	2,899	65	12	-	80	232	18	372	18	-	38	70	124	131	538	123	8	-	-	2,685	1,750	120	1,525	1,294	3,925	339	376	8,859	770
	corresponding thereto			Contractors Workmen	14,107	411	878	3,394	1,857	544	510	4,774	50	200	4,642	92	258	637	3,262	616	682	201	656	12		10	14	17	24		4	13	5
Received once in the year from employers	Number of Lists				85	5	5	10	16	5	2	37	10	-	55	8	16	6	150	11	13	-	10	-	-	37	11	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Outworkers,			Contractors	55	2	-	-	-	2	-	41	5	-	-	4	8	-	-	1	-	42	-	71	-	50	193	98	172	-	10	93	20
	corresponding thereto			Workmen	431	6	16	28	90	3	4	356	14	-	256	16	25	23	519	31	48	186	281	1,825	873	877	2,971	1,158	8,004	70	422	510	38
Number of addresses of outworkers received from other Councils					255	358	830	3,261	1,642	139	629	936	233	277	3,235 1	292	40	315	3,336	333	946	96	431	1,430	1,464	143	1,452	791	1,826	340	253	4,269	302
Number of addresses of outworkers ] forwarded to other Councils					17,083	209	334	1,640	676	571	310	4,989	27	70	2,408	114	355	469	1,532	588	421	-	-	-		_				46
Prosecutions	Failing to keep lists or permit inspection				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Prosecutions	thereof Failing to send lists				-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-
Outworkers Premises.																								1,773	329	23	2,040	599	3,762	346	488	974	266
Number of inspections of outworkers premises					303	954	1,492	6,218	1,263	138	258	604	261	297	1,256	267	80	175	946	169	735	332	305	-			102		631	346	36	263	16
Outwork in unwhole-some premises (s. 108)			Instances		-	52	108	-	41	-	-	1	5	25	-	21	-	-	76	3	-	15	-				102	__	631				16
			Notices served		-	55	108	-	19	-	-	1	5	25	-	21	-	-	70	3	-	15	-	-			102		631		36	306
			Prosecutions..		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	4		-	-	28	76		14	103
Instances					-	2	-	-	-	-	3	5	_-	-	-	-	-	-	17	4	8	-	-									103
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)			Orders made (s. 110)		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-			-	-	-	-	-
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)			Prosecutions (ss. 109, 110)		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-											-
4. Workshops.
Workshops on the Register at the end of 1910.																								93	78	133	71	107	175	24	136	85	58
Bakehouses (c)					21	80	90	90	166	33	69	60	70	60	112	60	35	30	242	95	214	94	61	191	43	74	26	50	26	195	153	48	19
Laundries					2,114	55	40	1,873	65	24	9	22	56	21	94	198	7	9	114	169	168	63	109	390	2,482d	1,642	1,147	2,375d	3,251	195	1,418	2,889	140e
Other workshops					2,114	465	653	1,873	1,491d	618	186	l,948e	351	177d	945	533d	426	1,092	1,315	1,322	642d	444	895	502	2,603d		1,244	2,532			1,481	2,889
Total (number of workshops on the Register)					2,135	600	783	1,963	1,722d	675	264	2,030e	477	258d	1,151	791d	468	l,131	1,671	1,586	1,024d	601	1,065	502	2603d					219	l107	3,022	217e
5. Other Matters.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector ofFactories.																								33	20		3	7	83	12	59	105	2
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)					128	64	-	25	17	8	10	52	-	3	93	-	25	22	127	54	35	21	49
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acts but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 5)		Notified by H.M. Inspector Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. Inspector			37	4	21	39	17	16	6	48	7	1	22	20	1	12	2	25	20	3	26	13	33	21	37	42	190	12	15	112	2
					37	-	21	39	6	16	6	48	7	1	20	20	1	12	2	21	20	3	25	13	24	21	10	16	146	-	15	112	-
Other					7	-	-	-	-	3	30	45	-	-	-	6	12	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	3	44	1	-	12	-
Underground Bakehouses (s. 101). Certificates granted during 1910					-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
In use at the end of 1910					22	31	33	27	66	28	25	36	49	17	50	33	22	21	98	76	72	20	54	29	78	160	42	40	49	19	46	71	16

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(a) Excluding inspections of restaurant kitchens, etc. (b) Includes defects in homeworkers' premises.
(c) Including bakehouses not in use during the year.
(d) Includes workplaces other than places where food is prepared.
(e) Includes workplaces

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Table: APPENDIX I.TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY j AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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