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LAUNDRIES.
There are 93 factory laundries and 230 workshop laundries
in the district.
WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES.
At the end of the year there were 372 workshops on the register.
Of these 230 were laundries. This number is 48 less than 1906,
but the decrease is only apparent. In the course of inspection,
it was found that some of the workshop laundries had been converted
into factories, and it will be observed that there are only
230 laundries classed as workshops in 1907, as compared with 288
in 1906.
The results of the inspection will be found in the accompanying
tables.
BAKEHOUSES.
There were 28 bakehouses in the district ; of these 8 are underground.
HOMEWORK.
178 Lists of outworkers were received ; 124 of these were received
from occupiers of workships in the district and 54 were
received from other Councils.
In 21 instances, the place of employment was in another
district, and the names and addresses were forwarded to the Council
in whose district the premises were situated.
5 Cases of Infectious Diseases occurred in houses where home
work was done, and although no order under Section no of the Act
was made, the employers did not send work to the house until the
patient had been removed to Hospital, and the premises were disinfected.
In conclusion. I may mention that the Chief Sanitary Inspector
and both the Assistant Inspectors obtained the Meat Certificate
of the Sanitary Institute during the year.