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fully explained in a pamphlet, "Hints on the Administration
of the Factory Acts, by Alexander Redgrave, Esq.,
H.M. Inspector of Factories, copies of which can he
obtained, free of charge, at the Factory Office, No. 10,
Whitehall.
Published by the Vestry, being the Local Authority appointed to
enforce the provisions of the Act within the Parish, and to whom, addressed
to me, notice of any infringement thereof should be given.
Vestry Hall, Piccadilly,
27th February. 1868.
By Order,
GEORGE BUZZABD,
Vestry Clerk.
Upwards of 6,000 of these Abstracts were printed
and circulated through the agency of the Sanitary
Inspectors throughout the Parish. The consequence
has been that a large number of complaints have
been forwarded to the Vestry Clerk. These have
been all anonymous, or at least without the address
of the writer, so that it would have been quite
impossible to prosecute on the evidence supplied.
At the same time in every case of complaint enquiries
have been made, and the principals of the
establishments complained of have at once shewn
the greatest anxiety to comply with the regulations
of the Act. In no case have I had a second complaint.
It might have been thought advisable to
prosecute in these cases at once, but as in so many
instances in the case of the existance of