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OUT-WORKERS. 21
articles of wearing apparel, of electro-plate, of files, and
to cabinet and furniture making and upholstery work.
The Local Government Board has also issued a circular
requesting Sanitary Authorities generally to inspect
workshops and houses where the outworkers are
employed.
The Section itself has been extended by a subsequent
Act, the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895,
Sect. 42:—
(1) "Every occupier of a factory or workshop to
whom Section 27 of the Act of 1891, for the time
being applies, and every contractor employed by
any such occupier in the business of the factory
or workshop, shall, on or before the first
day of March and the first day of September
in each year, send to the inspector for the district
in which the factory or workshop is situate, a list showing
the names of all persons directly employed by him, either
as workmen or as contractors, in the business of the
factory or workshop outside the factory or workshop,
and the places where they are employed, and in default
of so doing shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty
shillings."
(2.) Section 27 of the Act of 1891 enacts :—"And
this Section shall apply to any place from which any
work of making wearing apparel for sale is given out,
and to the occupier of that place, and to every
contractor employed by any such occupier in connection
with the said work as if that place were a workshop."
The word "Inspector" in the Sections cited refer
to inspectors appointed and under the control of the
Home Office, and not to the sanitary inspectors. This
portion of the Act has not been carried out in St.
Marylebone hitherto in its entirety. During the latter
part of 1898, however, an attempt has been made to
put the Section into force. In the first place the Home
Office was applied to, to know whether copies of the
lists in that Office could be consulted, and a courteous