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Workshop Inspection.
The following particulars relate to (he workshop inspections made
during 1913, bakehouse inspections being omitted. The total number
of inspections made during the year was 508, as against 561 in the
previous year.
Cleanliness.
Ten workrooms were found on inspection to require cleansing,
and these were cleansed on the request of the inspector.
Ventilation and Warming.
In five workshops the ventilation was found to be unsatisfactory.
In four cases, this was caused by gas stoves used for the heating of
irons being unprovided with a flue to carry off the products of combustion.
Proper hoods and Hues were fixed in three instances, and in one case the
gas stove was moved to another room. In order to secure these
alterations it was found necessary to serve three notices.
In seven cases, the means of warming were found to be unsatisfactory.
Three of these were improved on request, and four were reported to H.M.
Inspector of Factories.
Overcrowding
All the workrooms in the workshops arc measured by the inspectors
and the cubic space in each room is ascertained. The maximum number
of workers that can legally occupy the room is then calculated, and this
information is set out on a card supplied by the Council, which is hung
up in each room. The legal number of occupants varies according as
overtime is worked, or whether the room is used as a sleeping room as
well as a workroom. During 1913, 37 new workrooms were measured.
Overcrowding was found in 4 instances: one was abated on request,
but notices had to be served in the other three cases before the overcrowding
was abated.
Abstract of the Act.
Section 128 of the Factory Act provides that an abstract of the Act
"shall be affixed at the entrance of every factory and workshop, and in
such other parts thereof" as the Factory Inspector may direct; and
Section 133 of the Act provides that "when any woman, young person,
or child is employed in a workshop in which no abstract of this Act is
affixed as by this Act required, and the Medical Officer of Health of the