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Table: APPEN DIX |. iiiTABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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APPEN DIX |. iii

TABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY 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.	Hair mersmith.	Hampstead.	Holborn.	Islington.	Kensington.	Lambeth.	Lewisham.	Paddington.	Poplar.	St. Marylebonc.	St. Pancras.	Shoreditch.	Southwark.	Stepney.	Stoke Newington.	Wandsworth.	City of Westminster.	Woolwich.
1. Inspections.
Factories (including factory laundries)					3,638	556	197	167	398	3	166	1,170	140	34	59	751	92	141	484	151	10	94	110	72	91	66	384	115	129	42	826	67	67
Workshops (including workshop laundries)					4,232	1,638	86	3,573	2,635	890	390	2,325	520	208	2,100	1,532	675	689	2,558	2,339	157	1,630	2,926	1,164	3,330	398	2,924	1,012	4,797	190	3,227	2,784	241
Workplaces (other than outworkers' premises)					1,179	1,575	221	1,004	815	7	200	235	170	121	1	908	1,693	2,530	1,147	185	—	174	40	1,230	659	121	674	3,906	81	16	1,997	2,491	91
Total (Inspections)					9,049	3,769	504	4,744	3,848	893	756	3,730	830	363	2,160	3,191	2,460	3,360	4,189	2,675	167	1,898	3,076	2,466	4,080	585	3,982	5,133	5,007	248	6,050	5,342	399
2. Defects Found.
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts.
Want of cleanliness					674	77	44	650	54	17	140	248	58	74	262	73	79	59	492	81	97	71	58	504	218	62	198	709	622	26	154	880	63
Want of ventilation					22	3	3	31	3	1	1	27	2	—	51	—	2	1	33	35	3	2	2	3	15	3	—	76	112	1	7	146	9
Overcrowding					9	8	—	5	3	7	2	6	—	—	15	—	2	5	14	9	7	4	23	—	6	—	3	26	38	3	2	63	3
Want of drainage of floors					—	3	8	8	4	—		4		1		9	—	—	35	—	—	2	—	—	1	1	—	8	3	1	—	16	3
Other nuisances					1,586	113	163	638	60	27	104	479	6	24	129	165	43	124	247	81	143	17	—	172	79	5	76	648	330	37	183	1,230	19
Sanitary accommodation	Insufficient				16	11	11	14	1	1	8	15	3	1	2	3	2	4	44	10	1	1	—	1	4	3	18	16	18	4	5	64
	Unsuitable				2,887	26	11	315	65	3	49	210	19	16	100	42	3	63	554	74	135	43	30		61	5	123	17	187	33	100	98	20
	Not separate for sexes				56	1	1	8	4	2	—	46	2	—	5	1	—	9	14	3	1	—	2	—	9	5	8	6	20	1	2	114	4
Offences under the Factory & Workshop Act.
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (s. 101)					—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Breach of special sanitary requiremcnts for bakehouses (ss. 97-100)					—	37	6	—	—	5	—	—	8	—	—	96	—	—	—	45	—	57	—	—	14	13	—	—	21	—	9	4	—
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork)																—	—	—	—	—	—	—	17	—	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Total (defects found)					5,250	279	247	1,669	194	63	304	1,122	97	116	568	389	132	265	1,433	338	387	197	132	680	407	99	426	1,506	1,352	106	462	2,615	1ll
3. Homework.																—
Outworkers' Lists (s. 107).																60	108	128	296	128	64	78	120	138	122	38	92	138	318	47	124	656	60
Received twice" in the year from employers					1,382	76	72	170	152	56	72	286	26	26	380	60	108	128	296	128	64	78	120	138	122	38	92	138	318	47	124	656	60
	Outworkers,			Contractor	3,656	41	13	2,8031	60	228	11	437	6	304	34 3,071	76	92	215	88	137	9	—	30	67	462	68	73	1,107	4,263	346 j	82	9,050	9eo
	"corresponding there to,			W kmen	11,661	320	669}	2,8031	1,850	416	530	4,595	60	304	34 3,071	90	226	561	2,308	892	564	186	544	2,455	1,340	136	1,652	1,107	4,263	346 j	349	9,050	9eo
Received once in the year from em-ployers	Number of Lists				99	7	18	11	24	1	5	39	3	3	59	14	8	18	55	7	9	21	9	13	__	13	13	7	16	—	8	39	7
	Outworkers.1			Contractors	178	1	1	1251	7	—	—	48	—	6	—	8	6	3	24	1			15		—	16	291	48	179 {	_	3	171	7
	corresponding thereto.			Workmen	688	22	105	1251	130	1	9	406	6	6	313	24	5	17	92	15	37	41	29	77	—	47	76/	48	179 {	—	22	171	24
Number of addresses of outworkers received from other Councils					709	825	—	3,103	—	135	—	—	—	268	3,478	—	—	—	2,746	360	1,008	—	386	2,'08	—	—	2,385	1,133	—	747	511	443	115
Number of addresses of outworkers forwarded to other Councils					15,737	181	—	1,561	—	648	—	—	—	151	2,472				1,228	798	341		350	1l,336			82	589		87	285	4,663	148
Prosecutions	Failing to keep lists or permit inspection thereof				—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Prosecutions	Failing to send lists				—	—	—	_	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	_	_	_	1	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	_		__	_
Outworkers' Premises.
Number of inspections of outworkers premises					—	760	1.384	6,031	1,325	122	331	508	—	278	1,658	588	—	193	637	121	167	364	298	1,294	—	—	2,645	1,033	4,886	773	461	979	629
Outwork in unwhole- some premises-(s. 108)			Instances		—	33	132	490	37	21	_	_	31	—	396	17	—	—	26	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	95	—	531	—	18	400	—
			Notices served		_	33	132	490	11	21	1	—	31	—	348	17			26	3	—	—	—	26	—	—	95	—	531	—	28	813	18
			Prosecutions		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Outwork in infected premises (ss. 109, 110)			Instances		__	5	_	—	_	_	19	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	24	8	8	—	7	—	—	—	—	2	149	—	16	23	—
			Orders made (s. 110)		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
			Prosecutions (ss. 109, 110)		—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
4. Workshops.					—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Workshops on the Register at the end of 1912.					—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Bakehouses (a)					21	79	74	89	162	33	69	60	71	57	105	62	34	32	241	91	214	91	53	84	75	167	75	107	179	24	127	85	42
Laundries					3,6571	29	401	2,0681	49	20	7	19	35	23	93	305	6	13	100	167	193	82	101	26	4,434	74	26	59	21	206	147	42	16
Other workshops					3,6571	452	653	2,0681	1,585	673	176	1,931	294	201	873	727	415	1,171	2,037	1,586	1,204	413	1,290	848	4,434	1,718b	1.117	2,871	3,320	206	1,429	2,772	175
Total (number of workshops on the Register)					3,678	560	767	2,157	1,796	726	252	2,010	4C0	281	1,071	1,094	455	1,216	2,378	1,844	1,611	586	1,444	958	4,509	1,959	1,218	3,037	3,520	230	1,703	2,899	233
5. Other Matters.
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories.
Failure to affix abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 133)					106	28	—	21	16	5	9	72	—	6	51	—	10	4	197	41	—	35	52	12	46		—	2	37	15	25	124	4
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector as remediable under the Public Health Acta but not under the Factory and Workshop Act (s. 5).		Notified by H.M. Inspector			45	1	8	71	10	6	—	17	7	1	48	15	—	18	9	10	8	3	—	17	40	8	32	30	290	4	9	91	2
		Reports (of action taken) sent to			45		8	72	3	6		17	7	1	41	15	—	18	7	10	8	3	—	17	35	8	15	1	244	4	9	91	2
		H.M. Inspector
Other					31	—	—	—	1	—	—	48	—	—	—	36	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4	6	_	—	9	46	—	—	3	—
Underground Bakehouse3 (s. 101).
Certificates granted during 1912					—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	_	_	_	—	—	_	_	_	1	_	_	—	_	—	1	_	_
In use at the end of 1912					21	30	32	26	65	28	25	34	49	12	50	30	21	21	195	75	72	20	54	25	65	132	41	40	59	19	47	68	15

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(a) Including bakehousw not in use during the year.
(6) Including workplaces.

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Table: APPEN DIX |. iiiTABLE SHOWING PROCEEDINGS OF LONDON SANITARY AUTHORITIES UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.

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