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supervision. There are 285 laundries registered as workshops, and
207 other houses registered as places where home work is being done.
Possibly, the list of out-workers is not complete, but the danger of
infection is not so great as in the case of domestic workshops.
The risk only occurs when a case of infectious disease occurs in
the house. There is no mixing of foul and clean linen, and infection
cannot be spread in that way. All the linen has been sorted and
washed before it arrives at the outworkers' premises, and the subsequent
delivery is undertaken by the laundry proprietor. As a rule,
only one cass of work is done by each outworker; for instance,
blouses may be given out to one outworker, and dresses to another,
but the articles are always washed at the laundry, and simply prepared
and ironed by the outworker.
WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
The District Council has to keep a register of all workshops
within its district. To assist the Council in keeping the register, the
Factory Inspector forwards any notices of occupation of a workshop
which may be sent to him. During the year 23 notices of occupation
were received by the Council.
At the end of the year there were 420 workshops on the register.
A majority of these consisted of workshop laundries. As will be seen
on the table at the end of the report, 37 defects were found on the
premises, nearly half of which referred to want of cleanliness.
There are 27 bakehouses on the register. 8 of which are underground.
A special report was presented upon the condition of the
underground bakehouses when the certificates were granted. Only
one breach of the special sanitary requirements for bakehouses was
found, and this consisted of a drain communicating directly with the
bakehouse.
HOMEWORK.
Section 107 of the Act prescribes that the occupier of every factory
or workshop engaged in certain kinds of work—to be specified in
an Order of the Home Office shall keep in a prescribed form and
manner lists of the names and addresses of all persons directly employed
by him outside the factory or workshop, and the places where