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SANITARY CONDITION OF WORKSHOPS WHERE
WrOMEN ARE EMPLOYED.
INSPECTIONS UNDER THE FACTORY AND
WORKSHOP ACT.
The supervision of workshops, laundries and home-workers
premises is carried out by the District Inspectors and Lady Health
Visitors. All workshops where women are employed are inspected by
the Lady Health Visitors, but where defects requiring structural
alterations are discovered they are referred to the District Sanitary
Inspectors who supervise the work of reconstruction necessary to
amend the condition.
WORKSHOPS AND WORKPLACES WHERE WOMEN
ARE EMPLOYED.
The Laundries, Workshops, and Workplaces where women are
employed have been inspected during the year 1909, and have been
revisited as frequently as the conditions found may have required.
Laundries.—The larger and specially-built laundries are usually
well kept and have ample air space for the number of people employed
therein. The smaller hand laundries still leave much to be desired.
The Factory and Workshops Act, 1908, provides for all ironing
stoves to be adequately screened. This provision does not appear to
have made any real difference in the condition of the smaller laundries.
The only screens provided are those formed by the clothes drying
around the stoves, and the Home Office Inspectors deem this a sufficient
compliance with the provisions of the Act. Overhead drying is still
generally found in the ironing rooms, especially during the winter
months.