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INHABITED HOUSE DUTY.
33. A certificate under the Inland Revenue Act was
granted for the house, 6, Ripon Road, Plumstead, containing
four separate flats on two floors.
UNDERGROUND ROOMS.
34. Nine underground rooms occupied for sleeping were
found not in accordance with the regulations made under
Section 17, Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act. Four
Closing Orders were made and the occupation of five rooms
for sleeping was stopped on service of notice.
FACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, AND WORKPLACES.
35. There were, at the close of the year, 197 (201 in 1914)
workshops on the register. 390 inspections were made and
22 notices served and complied with. 149 (96 in 1914)
inspections of factories were made regarding sanitary accommodation,
and 37 (15 in 1914) notices served and complied
with. 369 (490 in 1914) inspections of homeworkers' premises
were made and 9 (14 in 1914) notices sent and attended
to. Table X. gives full particulars of the work done under
Section 107, Factory Act.
Miss Middlebrooke devoted a large amount of her time to
the inspection of workshops, factories, and houses where
women are employed; 17 new workrooms were measured up
and put on the register. Seven matters under the Factory
Act were reported to H.M. Inspector, including three failures
to affix abstracts of the Factory Act.
BAKEHOUSES.
36. The number of factory bakehouses is 9, and of workshop
bakehouses in use is 36, 11 of the latter being underground.
They were all inspected twice. I inspected most
of them personally, and found them generally satisfactory.
14 certified underground bakehouses are not in use.