"In nine cases out of ten the windows are broken and filled up with canvas; ventilation is impossible and light insufficient--the workshops are miserable dens. We are of opinion that all workplaces included in the above description should be required to be kept in a cleanly state, to be lime-washed or washed throughout at stated intervals, to be kept free from noxious effluvia, and not to be overcrowded--in other words, to be treated for sanitary purposes as factories are treated under the factory law." Lord Kenry, Chairman of the Committee, in his draft report, said:-- "It has been shown that the dwellings or shops in which the sweated class live and work are too often places in which all the conditions of health, comfort, and decency are violated or ignored.... Sanitary inspection is totally inadequate, and the local bodies have seldom done their duty effectually. At the East End of London generally the sanitary state of homes and shops could not possibly be much worse than it is." And Mr. Lakeman (Government Inspector under the Factories and Workshops Act) said, in reference to workshops: "I think that the evidence given your Lordships upon the insanitary state of those places is not at all too black." Once more the necessity of inspection was insisted upon. "On no point," wrote the Chairman, "was the unanimity of witnesses more emphatic than with reference to the necessity of more efficient sanitary inspection, not only of workshops, but of the dwellings of the poor." And just as it was as regarded tenement-houses, inspection here was lamentably deficient, if not absolutely non-existent. "The inspection at present carried on is totally inadequate, and nothing was more clearly proved before us than the fact that satisfactory results cannot be looked for from the system as it now stands."[178] "Even when an unmistakable cause of unhealthiness is discovered, and steps are taken to remove it, the process of applying the remedy is slow and uncertain. The Local Board meets once a week or fortnight ... the landlord is allowed a fortnight to carry out the work; three weeks may elapse before the inspector can go and see it, then perhaps nothing has been done; the summons, &c., takes time. In any case much valuable time is lost, and smallpox or fever is allowed to pursue its ravages with the source of the disease daily aggravated in intensity. "At present the inspectors under the Factory and Workshop Act of 1878 have no power to deal with any nuisance which lies within the district over which the local authorities preside. On the other hand, the local inspector cannot interfere should he discover any breach of the Factory Act." The Home Secretary, in moving the second reading of the Bill, explained its scope. He said:--