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Factory and Workshop Act, 1901.
This part of the Report is made pursuant to Section 132 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which provides that—
"The Medical Officer of Health of every District Council shall
in his Annual Report to them, report specifically on the
administration of this Act in workshops and workplaces,
and he shall send a copy of his Annual Report, or so much
of it as deals with this subject, to the Secretary of State."
At the end of 1912 there were 450 workshops on the register, of
which 33 wore domestic workshops. Excluding the latter, there were
employed in the workshops 833 males and 1,023 females. Dressmaking
is the trade chietly carried on in the llampstcad workshops, and next in
order of frequency come bootmaking, tailoring, baking and millinery.
The following table shows the number of each class of workshops,
the number of workrooms, and the number of persons of each sex
employed.