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WORKPLACE.
Laundries classed (a) are either "Factories" or Workshops
according as "power " is employed or not.
Class (b) will still be excluded from the operation of the Factory
Acts, but will be, as hitherto, subject to all the provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, just as an ordinary dwelling house is.
There is no definition of the word "Workplace" in any of the
Acts, but I understand it to mean, any premises where work of
any kind is carried on, but which do not come within the definition
of either Factory or Workshop. A Cabinet Maker's workroom
where men only are employed would be a Workplace.
BAKEHOUSES
Public Health
(London) Act
Sec. 141.
A Bakehouse means any place in which is baked bread, biscuits
or confectionery, from the baking or selling of which a profit is
derived.
Factory Act
1878, Sec. 61.
Bakehouses are always Workshops (or Factories if power be used),
and never Workplaces, and whether they are "Domestic" or ordinary,
are under no circumstances exempted the obligations of the
Factory Acts as to periodical cleansing, etc.
DOMESTIC
WORKSHOP.
Factory Act
1878, Sec. 16
A "Domestic Workshop" (or Factory) is defined by the principal
Act to be a "Workshop" or "Factory" where no mechanical power
is used and in which the only persons employed are members of the
same family dwelling there; such places (excepting bakehouses) as
come within this definition are exempted from the sanitary regulations
of the Factory Acts, and from affixing notices in the workrooms,
but they remain under the supervision of the Vestry in respect to
sanitary condition, and the provisions of the Public Health (London)
Act apply in their entirety.
BAKEHOUSES
Factory Act
1678. Secs. 34,
35, and 81.
Factory Act
1883, Secs. 15
and 16.
Factory Act
1895, Sec. 27
Public Health
(London) Act
1891, Sec. 26
(2)
All the Sections in the Factory Acts applying to Workshop bakehouses
are administered by the Sanitary Authority:—
Bakehouses must either be painted in oil or varnished every
seven years, and washed with hot water and soap every six
months, or they must be limewashed every six months.
No W. C. may be within or communicate directly with a
bakehouse, nor may any drain have an opening within a
bakehouse.
Sleeping places on a level with bakehouses require to be specially
arranged.