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3.—HOME WORK.
91

* If an occupier gives out work of more than one of the classes specified in column 1, and subdivides his list in such a way as to show the
class only, but the outworkers should be assigned in columns 3 and 4 (or 6 and 7) into their respective classes. A footnote should be added
†The figures required in columns 2, 3 and 4 are the total number of the lists received from those employers who comply strictly with the
be even numbers, as there will be two lists for each employer—in some previous returns odd numbers have been inserted. The figures in
and August lists of the same employer the same outworker's name will often be repeated.
§ In view of the wide discrepancies found to exist between the totals in the two columns when the returns are added together it is desired
to other Council during the year covered by the reports.
number of workers in each class of work, the list should be included among those in column 2 (or 6 as the case may be) against the principal
to show that this has been done.
statutory duty of sending two lists each year and of the entries of names of outworkers in those lists. The entries in column 2 must necessarily
columns 3 and 4 will usually be (approximately) double of the number of individual outworkers whose names are given, since in the February
that care may be taken to give exact figures. Only those addresses should be counted which have actually been received from or forwarded

5.—OTHER MATTERS.
Class
(1)
Number.
(2)
Matters notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories:—
Failure to affix Abstract of the Factory and Workshop Act (S. 133)
128
{Notified by H.M. Inspector
Action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspector
Reports (of action taken) sent to H.M. inspector
37
37
Other
7
Underground Bakehouses (S. 101):—
Certificates granted during the year
None.
In use at the end of the year
22
Note.—The Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (S. 132), requires the Medical Officer of Health in his Annual Report to the Districr
much of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State (Home Office). If the Annual Report is presented otherwise than in print, it is
or homework. The duties of Local Authorities and the Medical Officer of Health under the Act of 1901 are detailed in the Home Office
Councils and Medical Officers of Health in October, 1906.
Dated 31st December, 1910. (Signature) W . COLLINGRIDGE, Medical Officer of Health..
Council to report specifically on the administration of that Act in workshops and workplaces, and to send a copy of his Annual Report, or so
unnecessary to include in the copy sent to the Home Office the portions which do not relate to factories, workshops, workplaces,
Memorandum of December, 1904. A farther Memorandum, on the Home Work Provisions of the Factory Act was issued to all District