LAUNDRY INSPECTION.—A CORRECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Allow
me to correct an inaccuracy in your "News of the Week " in the Spectator of August 17th. Speaking of the Laundry discussion on the Report stage of the Factories and Workshops Bill, you say :—" If the convent laundries were not to be subject to inspection, they [the Government] refused to put private firma at a disadvantage by inspection." This conveys the idea that there is now no Government inspection of any laundries. But the fact is that the inspection authorised by the Act of 1895 is now re-enacted. The Home Secretary undertook that this should be done in the House of Lords, and the amendment so made was agreed to in the Commons. And with this is re-enacted the total exemption of all " charitable and reformatory " laundries. I am not concerned now to express my opinion on the present state of things, which I made clear in the House of Commons, but I thought it was right that it should be known that the laundry workers are at least no worse off than they were, though many of us hoped they might have been better.—I am, Sir, eke.,
Sent Club, Maidstone.
JOHN G. TALBOT.
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