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The number of cubic feet of air space required for each
person being prescribed by the Act, cards are being affixed
stating the number of persons that can be worked in each
room during ordinary working hours, and also when overtime
is being worked.
No complaint has been received from the Home Office
with respect to any Workshop.
BAKEHOUSES.
The occupier of one Bakehouse has given up during the
year, but as the premises were registered in the name of
another person, the number on the register remains the same,
namely, nine.
This number includes an underground bakehouse not at
present in use.
Careful attention has been given to these premises, and
five notices have been served to secure the carrying out of the
special sanitary requirements.
All Bakehouses are required to be thoroughly cleansed
and limewashed at least twice a year, and special attention is
given to the drainage and paving of surroundings.
OUTWORKERS.
Ten lists of outworkers have been received in compliance
with sec. 107 of the Act as follows:—
Seven lists from firms within the district, all employing
Outworkers who are living in the district.
Three lists of outworkers employed by firms within the
district, but who are living outside the district. The addresses
of outworkers living outside the district have been sent to the
respective Councils.
Five addresses of outworkers living in the district,
employed by firms outside the district, addresses of which
have been received from other Councils.
Those outworkers living within the district have been
visited, but in no case has any infectious disease occurred in
their homes during the past year, and the conditions under
which they were working were found to be favourable.