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REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF WORKSHOPS, LAUNDRIES,
ETC., FOR THE YEAR 1901.
To the Public Health Committee, Hackney Borough Council.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my annual report for the year
ending December 31st, 1901.
Workshops (Including Laundbies).—During the year I have paid
139 first visits and 1,833 visits of re.inspection to workshops. Of
these visits 14 were prompted by complaints to the Medical Officer of
Health from H.M. Factory Inspectors and others. Of the first visits
21 were to workshops subject to the regulations of the Factory and
Workshop Acts, as well as to those of the Public Health (London)
Act, which had not previously been visited by any Inspector, and the
existence of which was subsequently notified to the Home Office
Authorities by the Medical Officer. I am sure that a careful
examination of the Borough would reveal the fact that there are many
other occupiers of workshops who up to the present have evaded
inspection of their premises. But at present, owing to the press of
other work, it is almost impossible for me to undertake such an
investigation. I cannot feel, however, that the workshop inspection
of the district is thoroughly done until I have been able to devote
some time to this purpose.
Outworkers.. .The inspection of outworkers' premises has been
continued this year. I have paid 262 visits of inspection. There
have been registered 465 outworkers in 1901 as against 630 in 1900.
This discrepancy in numbers is attributable to my ceasing to ask
for lists of outworkers employed at the workshops I visited in the
latter part of the year, consequent upon the passing of the Factory
and Workshop Act of 1901. Section 107, sub.section 1 (c) of this
Act provides that any employer of this class of worker shall send on
or before the 1st day of February and the first day of August in each
year copies of the lists of persons so employed by him to the District
Council of the district in which the factory or workshop is situated.