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(5) Laundry and washing 33
(6) Chemicals, oil, grease and soap 5
(7) Pood Manufacturers 8
(8) Metals, machines, implements and conveyances 39
(9) Precious metals, jewels, etc 1
(10) Other trades than those mentioned above 35
In point of numbers the various workshops in connection with the furniture trade
head the list with 654; those in which various articles of dress are made come next
with 233, and the third on the list are those connected with the printing, stationery
and fancy goods trades.
Every workshop on the register was inspected once during the year. Those
found to be in a satisfactory sanitary condition were not visited a second time.
Those found to be in an unsatisfactory state were kept under observation until the
necessary improvement in their condition was satisfactorily effected. A number of the
workshops required inspection at frequent intervals, and in connection with these a
large number of visits of inspection were made during the year. (See Appendix).
The communications received from the Factory Inspector as to the establishment
of new workshops within the Borough, numbered 33 and referred to 101 workshops of
which 40 were used for various branches of the furniture trade, 32 for the making of
various articles of wearing apparel, and 4 for laundry work, 5 for work in connection
with leather and feathers, and the remainder, with the exception of 6, for stationery,
book, fancy goods, and other work. 'In regard to the 6 excepted, in 3 the
premises were not to be found, in 1 they were empty, in 1 they had been demolished
and in 1 no work was carried on.
On inspection, 58 of these workshops were found to be in a satisfactory sanitary
condition. The remainder more or less required the attention of the sanitary officers
for the rectification of sanitary defects.
The written intimations received from the Factory Inspector, respecting insanitary
conditions and infringements of the law relating to Public Health numbered 118
and referred to 179 workshops and workplaces. The chief insanitary conditions
mentioned by the Factory Inspector were: want of cleansing in 97 instances,
delapidations and dirt in 21, defective or insufficient watercloset accommodation in 36,
absence of watercloset accommodation in 1, want of proper separate sanitary
conveniences for the sexes in 8, overcrowding in 4, and other defects in 6. The
premises thus brought under observation were all visited and inspected by the officers
of the Borough Council. The insanitary conditions referred to, besides others