§ MR. E. H. BAYLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, with a view to prevent sweating, he will cause the lists of outworkers in the wearing apparel, furniture, tile-cutting, and electro-plate trades to be furnished to the medical officer in each district?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. ASQUITH,) Fife, E.The lists of outworkers are kept at the premises of the occupiers of factories and workshops in the various trades affected by the Order, and are open to the inspection of the medical officers and the Sanitary Authorities. In order to secure co-operation between the Factory Inspectors and the sanitary officers, the Local Government Board issued, at my request, in November last, a Circular to all Urban Sanitary Authorities, calling their attention to the Order of the Secretary of State, and requesting them to instruct their officers to make frequent examinations of the lists, and so to acquaint themselves, for the purposes of inspection, with the places in which the outworkers carry on their work.