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eventually carried out and the summons withdrawn on payment
of the costs (£1) by the defendant.
For non.compliance with a notice requiring the abatement
of a nuisance caused by the dirty and dilapidated premises
at 4, Crown Place, Bell Green, Mrs. L. was ordered to pay the
cost of the summons, and an order to abate the nuisance within
14 days was granted.
Proceedings under the Metropolis Management Act:—
For refusing to allow the inspector to enter and inspect
the drains at Nos. 41 and 43, Aislibie Road, A. E. L. and T. E. R.
were fined £5 and £1 Is. costs, and £5 and 2s. costs respectively.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT,
1901, in connection with Factories, Workshops, Laundries,
Workplaces, and Home Work.
Workshops.—There are in the Borough 548 workshops,
containing 863 workrooms to which provisions of the Factory
and Workshop Act apply. The number of workers found on
inspection amounted to 2,154, of which 542 were men, 1214
women, and 398 young persons.
The largest proportion of these workers were engaged in
the dressmaking, laundry and millinery trades, there being 1,180
women, 305 young persons, and 18 men employed. These
premises are inspected by the women sanitary inspectors, together
with the workshops employing women in other trades.
Only 34 women and 93 young persons were employed in all the
other trades which necessitate the employment of male labour,
and at which 524 men were engaged.
Domestic Workshops—i.e., private houses, places, or
rooms, where no power is used, and in which the only persons