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Summary.
Underground bakehouses certificated 27
Bakehouses aboveground 12
Total number of bakehouses in the City 39
Bakehouses closed or demolished during 1903 in
consequence of the operation of the Factory and
Workshop Act, 1901 17
During the year 32 re-inspections of bakehouses aboveground were
made, and 560 of bakehouses underground.
TAILORS' WORKSHOPS.
Recognising the importance of bringing tailors' shops within the provisions
of Part VI. of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, relating to "home
work,'' the Home Secretary, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon
him,* made an order, that became operative concurrently with the Act,
specifying the tailoring trade, amongst others, as coming under the requirements
of the following sections, viz.:—
"107.—In the case of persons employed in such classes of work as
"may from time to time be specified by Special Order of the Secretary
"of State—
"(1.) The occupier of every factory and workshop, and every
"contractor employed by any such occupier in the business of the
"factory or workshop, shall—
"(a) keep in the prescribed form and manner, and with the
"prescribed particulars, lists showing the names and
"addresses of all persons directly employed by him, either
"as workmen or as contractors, in the business of the
"factory or workshop, outside the factory or workshop,
"and the places where they are employed; and
"(6) send to an inspector such copies of, or extracts from,
''those lists as the inspector may from time to time
"require; and