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93
The defects found were as follows:—
Sanitary accommodation defective 106
„ „ dirty 123
„ „ unsuitable 20
„ „ insufficient 5
„ ,, not kept separate 12
266
Walls and ceilings dirty 91
Ventilation insufficient 32
Workshop overcrowded 20
Damp walls or ceilings 18
General defects 57
Total
484
Domestic Workshops.—There are 33 domestic workshops now on the
Register, 23 of which are outworkers' premises, and were included in the lists
of outworkers sent in by employers. Nine domestic workshops were
inspected for the first time this year, and forty-three periodical inspections
have been made.
WORKPLACES (KITCHENS).
The continued inspection of kitchens goes to prove that, as pointed out in
my Annual Report of 1907, the majority of basement-kitchens are entirely
unsuited to the purpose.
In many of these kitchens the amount of cooking, and consequently the
number of gas stoves in use, has greatly increased, while the means of
ventilation have not been proportionately improved, and in some cases
the kitchens are so far removed from the external air, that when every
available means of ventilation has been utilised, the state of the atmosphere is
still unsatisfactory.
It is to be hoped that before long the Corporation will have more definite
powers of dealing with this matter.
The number of inspections and defects found is as follows:—
Initial inspections 37
Periodical inspections 143
180
Re-inspections 149