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A similar order was made in respect of 79, High Street,
Sydenham. The premises were subsequently vacated, the
water supply re-instated, and the closing order cancelled.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP
ACT, 1901.
Workshops:—There are in the borough 570 workshops,
containing 928 workrooms to which provisions of the Factory
and Workshop Act apply. The number of workers found on
inspection amounted to 2186, of which 505 were men, 1376
women, and 305 young persons. The largest proportion of these
workers were engaged in the dressmaking, laundry, and millinery
trades, there being 1343 women, 250 young persons and 35 men
so employed. These premises are inspected by the women
sanitary inspectors (see work of women sanitary inspectors, page
77), together with the workshops employing women in other
trades. Only 33 women and 55 young persons were employed
in all other trades. In workshops employing male labour, 505
men were engaged.
Domestic and Part-Time Work Places.—There are 261
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
54 restaurants and 49 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.
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.