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which are being used at an increasing, if slow, rate, and their
general use would solve the problem of the nuisance arising
from domestic chimneys. Apart from the domestic chimney,
the question of smoke abatement in Woolwich is not a serious
one.
Factory and Workshop Act. The Medical Officer of Health
ia required to include in his Annual Report details of the
administration of this Act in his district. The total number
of factories, workshops and workplaces on the register was
233. The number of inspections was 778, compared with
832 in 1927. The number of sanitary defects found was 59,
and 54 of these had been remedied at the end of the year.
Bakehouses are specially reported on in the section dealing
with the supervision of food.
The number of inspections of Outworkers' premises, 820,
compares with 766 for 1927. Most of the outworkers in the
Borough have been employed in the manufacture of tennis
balls or wearing apparel, but towards the end of the year
an additional number were employed by the manufacturers
of elastic products. The supervision of places where home
work is carried on is done by the woman Sanitary Inspector.
She finds that, generally speaking, home work is carried out
under sanitary conditions, but it was necessary to serve 17
notices for minor offences. There were two cases of infectious
disease in the homes of the outworkers.
The following Table is in the form adopted by the Secretary
of State to provide for uniformity throughout the country
in the presentation of certain particulars of this work which
lend themselves to statistical treatment.
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