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Factory and Workshop Acts.
The number of Workshops and Workplaces, including
Bakehouses, now on the Register is 87. All have been periodically
inspected, and, as a rule, the general conditions of the
Act are well observed.
Four notices were received from H.M. Inspector of
Factories as to insufficient closet accommodation, overcrowding
and dirty condition of workrooms and insufficient W.C. accommodation
in a factory.
Outworkers.
Lists of outworkers residing in this district have been received
in 44 instances from other authorities. A record is kept
of their addresses, these lists are referred to upon receipt of a
notification of infectious disease, in order to stop any work
being sent to an infected house. No case of infectious disease
occurred in the house of an outworker.
The names and addresses of 12 outworkers living outside
the district have been forwarded to the authorities of the district
in which they reside.
Van Dwellers.
A great deal of nuisance and trouble was caused by
itinerant gipsies and van dwellers during the year under review,
as many as 215 vans being removed (in many instances
forcibly, with the assistance of the Police).