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held that the word is not to be limited to places where something
is being manufactured or made, but includes any "place where
work is done permanently, and where people assemble together
to do work permanently of some kind or other." It is, therefore,
a word of wider signification than the word "workshop." In the
case in question a stable and stable yard where men were employed
as cab cleaners and horse keepers was held to be a
workplace.
DOMESTIC FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS.
This class is defined as a private house, room, or place,
which, though used as a dwelling, is by reason of the work carried
on there, a factory or workshop as the case may be within the
meaning of the Act, and in which no mechanical power is used,
and in which the only persons employed are members of the same
family dwelling therein. Further, it is necessary that the work
should be carried on regularly, and provide the whole or principle
means of living to the family. These are exempt from many of
the provisions of the Act, but, so far as sanitary conditions are
concerned, they are to be treated as ordinary workshops.
The District Council is to keep a register of all workshops
situated within their district, and the Medical Officer of Health is
required in his annual report to them to report specifically on the
administration of the Act in workshops and workplaces as far as
the matters under the charge of the Council are concerned, and
to send a copy of such report on the subject to the Secretary of
State.
Report to
Secretary
of Stats.
As required by section 132 of the Act, I forwarded my report
on the administration in respect to workshops and workplaces of
the Secretary of State, as below.
In February, the Clerk and Solicitor to the Council, Mr.
R. H. S. Butterworth, presented a report to the Sanitary Committee
on the Act, and the powers and duties of the Council thereunder.
At the March Meeting, the Sanitary Inspector submitted
a report recommending a re-arrangement of the staff in his department,
in order to meet the additional work thrown on that
department, in carrying out the provisions of the Act.
Mr. E. S. Robinson was appointed Second Assistant Inspector,
and the duty of inspecting the premises, together with the
making of the register, allocated to him. The work was then