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Local sanitary authorities are responsible for sanitary defects
arising in connection with workshops where remediable under
the Public Health Acts, while offences under the Factory and
Workshop Act are reported for remedy to H.M. Inspector of
Factories.
157 visits were paid to workshops during the year, or on an
average 5.2 per workshop.
It cannot be stated that full information has yet definitely
been obtained respecting the workshops of the district, so that
no detailed statement regarding them from a public health point
of view can yet be made, as, for example, a number of those
inspected during the year were found to lack ordinary sanitary
accommodation for their employees. Considerable progress had
been made towards the close of the year in preparing a card index
record of all workshops and workplaces within the district.
To some extent lack of supervision of these places has resulted
from time spent on housing re-inspections, a system which still
continues to prove a heavy and perfectly useless drag upon the
time of the inspectors.
OUTWORKERS.
The following are the occupations of outworkers in the district
during 1924
Fancy Leather Goods 1
Wearing Apparel 6
Covering of Tennis Balls 1
Boot and Shoe Repairing 2
Brush Maker 1
Tie Makers 4
Umbrella Maker 1
Paper Bag Maker 1
During the year 23 lists of outworkers were received from
authorities outside the district in respect of outworkers residing
in Barking, whilst from employers within this district two lists
were similarly received.
All the workplaces of outworkers in the district were inspected
during the year.