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between their homes and work-places. We have in Shoreditch approximately
100,000 people living on a square mile. The density of population is 150 to the acre.
A large number of families are living under conditions of bad overcrowding and
many more are living under conditions harmful to the health and well-being of young
children. The parents of these children are in very many cases most anxious to
move into less crowded districts, but are prevented from doing so because they cannot
afford the cost of travel that would become neccssary.
Short of a great improvement in the economic condition of the families here
referred to, it is not easy to believe that the general housing situation can be relieved
without special legislation designed to give that freedom of movement that is now
one of the necessities of health to those working in large cities.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
Factories are dealt with by H.M. Inspectors of Factories and Workshops by
the Officers of the Borough Council. Certain sanitary defects, however, occurring
in factories are only remediable under the Public Health Act, and are referred by
H.M. Inspectors to the Health Department.
The number of workshops, exclusive of bakehouses, on the register at the end
of the year was 1,595. The number added to the register was 44, the number
removed 71.

Note.—A separate register is kept for bakehouses, the number of which in
use at the end of the year was 59, including 35 factory bakehouses.