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The number of certificates granted and the situation of the premises are
shown in the following list:—
Premises. No. of Tenements.
30, Mitcham Street 22
Molyneux House, Molyneux Street 5
Northwick House, St. John's Wood 1
34 & 35, Horace Street 3
88 & 90, Great Titchfield Street 12
92 & 94, Great Titchfield Street 12
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
This portion of the annual report is made in compliance with the
requirements of Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which
imposes on the Medical Officer of Health the duty of reporting each year on the
administration of the Act in workshops and workplaces. A copy of the annual
report, or of this portion, is to be sent to the Secretary of State for the Home
Department, along with the tables, immediately following.
Following the re-organisation of the work of the department, the inspector
in charge of each district is made responsible for the workshops and workplaces
in his own district ; those in which women are employed being left to the women
inspectors. As the majority of the workshops and workplaces are largely in the
two districts bounded on the north by Marylebone Road, on the south by
Oxford Street, on the west by Edgware Road, and on the east, broadly speaking
by Tottenham Court Road, most of the work is done by two inspectors. Of
these two districts, that lying on the east of the area described is by far the
heavier in every respect, and the amount of time which the inspector in charge of
this district can give to workshops and workplaces is small.
As a matter of fact, no routine inspections and reinspections have been
made for some time, either by the men or women inspectors. All that is done is
to attend to complaints and to measure up for the purposes of registration such
places as are notified as ''unregistered" by the Home Office Inspectors, or by
the persons who have taken or are about to take the premises.
The following tables contain information with regard to the number of
visits paid, and to other matters. Of the 2,277 visits, 688 were paid by the
women, and 1,589 by the men inspectors; 73 were made after receipt of a
complaint.