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Factories and Workshops.
Factories are increasing in the Borough largely as a result of the introduction
of small electric motors in tailors' and dressmaking establishments. The number
of workshops, many of them domestic workshops, is considerable, however, and
work in relation to them bulks very large amongst the duties of the district
inspectors, more especially those in charge of districts on the south of Marylebone
Road. The staple industry is, of course, dressmaking, millinery and tailoring in
all its branches, but in a number of places other trades are carried on.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 2,471 ; 239 by the women and 2,232 by the men inspectors. The complaints
received numbered 35.
The following report which the Medical Officer of Health is required to make
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in accordance with the provisions
of Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, gives, in addition
to other information, the total number of defects found and of notices served.