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Should the M. O. H. or Sanitary Inspector certify that the limewashing,
cleansing, or purifying of any workshop is necessary for
the health of the persons employed therein, it is the duty of the
Sanitary Authority to serve a notice on the owner or occupier
requiring him to do the necessary work. The fine for non-compliance
with the notice is a sum not exceeding £5 and a continuing
penalty of 10s. a day, in default after conviction.
Adequate means must be taken for securing and maintaining a
"reasonable" temperature in each room in which any person is
employed. Contravention of this section can only be enforced by
a Factory Inspector.
Special means of ventilation (mechanical or otherwise) must be
provided where dust or noxious gases are generated ; this also can
only be enforced by a Factory Inspector.
The expression " Sanitary Conveniences " includes waterclosets
and urinals, there is no fixed regulation as to the proportion these
should bear to the number of persons employed, each case must be
dealt with on its merits by the Sanitary Authority, regard being had
to the number of persons employed in, or in attendance at, such
building, and also where persons of both sexes are, or are intended
to be, employed, or in attendance, with proper separate accomodation
for persons of each sex.
Hitherto nothing in the Factory Acts has given H. M. Inspectors
any power to require water-closets in Factories, except in case of
default by Sanitary Authority (and defective provision of sanitary
conveniences is obviously one of the matters intended by Sec. 4 of
the principal Act to be notified to the Sanitary Authority in order
that they may make enquiry into the subject of the notice and take
such action thereon as may seem proper); by Sec. 35 of the new Act
this power is granted to H. M. Inspectors (so far as London is concerned)
in the exact terms of the Public Health (London) Act,
penalty in case of default, £10.
Sanitary Authorities and their Officers have the right to enter
trade premises for the purpose of examining as to the existence
thereon of any nuisance, at any hour when business is in progress or
is usually carried on.
LIMEWASH
ING.
Public Health
(London) act
Sec. 25.
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Factory Act
1895, Sec 82.
Dust and nox
ious gasses.
Factory Act
1878, Sec. 36.
Factory Act
1895, Sec. 33.
SANITARY
CONVENIENCES.
Public Health
(London) Act
Secs. 38 & 141.
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