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District Council becomes aware thereof, he shall forthwith give written
notice thereof to the Inspector for the district "The object of this
section is to secure that all new workshops in which protected persons
are employed, discovered by the officers of the local authority shall be
brought to the notice of the Factory Inspector, who supplies the
occupiers of workshops with the abstracts of the Act. The occupier of
a workshop is under legal obligation to give notice of his occupation of
the workshop to the Factory Inspector within a month after it has
begun, but owing to ignorance of the law, and for other reasons this
obligation is frequently left unfulfilled, and the Inspector is informed
of the occupation by the local Medical Officer of Health. Pursuant to
this section 10 workshops were notified to H.M. Inspector of Factories
as being without the abstract as required.
Bakehouses.
At the end of 1912 there were 37 occupied bakehouses on the
register, 21 being underground, and 10 above ground. Three of the
bakehouses situated above ground use power and are therefore factories.
Eight inspections were made in respect of the factory bakehouses,
114 inspections in respect of the workshop bakehouses, and 20 notices
were served.
The occupation of the underground room which was found towards
the end of 1911 to have been recently used as a bakehouse, and had not
been so used at the passing of the Factory Act of 1901, was discontinued
in the early part of 1912.