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inspection amounted to 2189, of which 549 were men, 1316
women, and 324 young persons. The largest proportion of these
workers were engaged in the dressmaking, laundry, and millinery
trades, there being 1,281 women, 251 young persons and 34 men
so employed. These premises are inspected by the women
sanitary inspectors (see work of women sanitary inspectors, page
118), together with the workshops employing women in other
trades. Only 35 women and 73 young persons were employed
in all other trades. In workshops employing male labour, 549
men were engaged.
Domestic and Part-Time Work Places.—There are 342
part-time and domestic workplaces, i.e., private houses, places
or rooms, where no power is used, and in which only the
occupiers themselves are employed. Besides these there are
53 restaurants and 42 stable yards, contractors' yards, &c.,
which might be termed workplaces. For the purpose of their
inspection a special clause was added to section 2 of the Public
Health (London) Act.
Home Work.—In February last several small employers
failed to send a list of outworkers employed by them. The
Committee, however, decided to send cautions and in reply these
lists were at once supplied.
On the whole the sanitary condition of the workshops in
the Borough is very satisfactory. Where defects were found a
verbal complaint to the owner was very often sufficient for the
immediate remedy of same.