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Sanitary Circumstances of the District.
TOWN PLANNING.
The Council have appointed a special Committee to deal with
the future development of the district, in accordance with principles
embodied in the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. With
regard to the western part of the district, a joint conference will
take place with the Corporation of Richmond to ascertain whether
a uniform scheme can be modelled for that part of the district.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, 1901.
The inspections carried out under this Act are set out in the
tables in the appendix, the defects discovered being minor ones, and
all were remedied without the necessity of prosecutions.
There is a certain amount of Home-Work done by Outworkers
in this district, the lists received from employers with one exception
coming through the Public Health Departments of other Local
Authorities. The variety of Home-Work done in this district is
mainly the making, altering, etc., of wearing apparel for large West
End firms, and is carried on under satisfactory conditions. During
the year no case of infectious disease has occurred on any of these
premises.
All the laundries on the register, as well as the laundries without
the district, are immediately informed by the Public Health
Department of the occurrence of any case of infectious disease
among their customers.
With regard to other premises, not specifically dealt with in the
report, but coming within the jurisdiction of the Council, these are
shown in the table on following page.