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Factories, Workshops, and Home-workers.—The work
carried out in connection with the inspection of factories,
workshops and home-workers is summarised in tabular
form below. The numbers of these premises on the Council's
Register at the end of year were:—factories 46, workshops and
workplaces 130, home-workers 17. The factories, workshops and
workplaces have been routinely inspected by the Sanitary
Inspectors, and premises occupied by home-workers have been
kept under observation in connection with the prevention of spread
of infectious disease.
The number of factories, workshops, workplaces and homeworkers'
premises visited, and the number of visits of inspection
made to each are given in Table IX., on page 22.
As regards action taken in matters referred by H.M. Inspectors
of Factories as remediable under the Public Health Acts, but not
under the Factory and Workshops Act, 1901, Sec. 5, notifications
were received from H.M. Inspector in regard to two matters, and
reports of action taken in each of them were sent to H.M. Inspector.