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inspector and by any officer duly authorised by the District Council, A copy
of the list is required to be submitted to the District Council in February and
August of each year.
SECTION 111 (Employment of person in unwholesome premises) provides that
where the outworker's premises are injurious or dangerous to health the
District Council may give notice in writing to the occupier of the factory or
to any contractor employed by him setting forth particulars of the respects in
which the place is, in their opinion, so injurious or dangerous, and the
reasons for that opinion and, if the occupier or contractor after the expira
tion of ten days from the receipt of such notice gives out work to be done in
that place, he shall, unless it is proved to the satisfaction of the court
dealing with the case that the place is not injurious or dangerous in the
respects set forth in the notice, be guilty of an offence.
PART II of the Third Schedule of the Act applies to London SECTIONS
109 and 110 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, which relate respectively to
the making of wearing apparel where there is scarlet fever or smallpox, and the
prohibition of home work in places where there is infectious disease.
The lists received in August showed there were 122 firms in the Borough
employing outworkers, and the premises of 1,458 outworkers were recorded in the
department nearly half of these outworkers were employed by firms whose
premises were outside the Borough. The inspection of outworkers" premises is
undertaken by the district sanitary inspectors, who visited 1,295 premises; in
no instance was work in unwholesome premises discovered.