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THIS TABLE WAS ISSUED BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD BY REQUEST OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, WORKPLACES AND HOMEWORK.
1911.
1—INSPECTION OF FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
Including Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors or Inspectors of Nuisances.
Premises.
(1)
Number of
Inspections.
(2)
Written Notices.
(3)
Prosecutions.
(4)
Factories (including Factory Laundries)
4,329
256
-
Workshops (including Workshop Laundries)
5,547
833
-
Workplaces (other than Outworkers' premises
included in Part 3 of this Report.)
1,122
359
-
Total
10,998
1,448
-
2.—DEFECTS FOUND IN FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES
Particulars.
(1)
Number of Defects.
Number
of
Prosecutions.
(5)
Found.
(2)
Remedied.
(3)
Referred to
H.M.
Inspector.
W
Nuisances under the Public Health Acts :—*
Want of cleanliness
1,080
940
-
-
Want of ventilation
79
70
-
-
Overcrowding
16
13
-
-
Want of drainage of floors
-
-
-
-
Other nuisances
1,503
1,439
-
-
Sanitary accommodation
insufficient
32
30
-
-
unsuitable or defective
3,166†
2,695
-
-
not separate for sexes
91
67
-
-
Offences under the Factory and Workshop Act:—
Illegal occupation of underground bakehouse (S. 101)
-
-
-
-
Breach of special sanitary requirements for bakehouses(SS. 97 to 100)
-
-
-
-
Other offences (excluding offences relating to outwork which are
included in Part 3 of this Report)
2
-
2
-
Total
5,969
5,254
2
-
* Including those specified in Sections 2, 3, 7 and 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act as remediable under the Public
Health Acts.
† These figures include individual defects in water closets.