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The expression " house " includes schools, also factories and other
buildings in which persons are employed.
All manufacturers of wearing apparel (and also certain other trades
when so required by the Secretary of State) are required to keep lists
of all persons employed by them as out-workers ; these lists may be
inspected by any officer of a Sanitary Authority, but by Sec. 42 of
the new Act these lists have to be sent twice a year to the Factory
Office. I have suggested to the Home Office Authorities that they
should act as a clearing house, and dissect these lists and classify
the outworkers according to districts ; under these circumstances we
6hould receive twice in each year a list of out-workers residing in
Bethnal Green, the Sanitary Inspectors could then visit the
residences of these people, in order to see that they are in a proper
sanitary condition See. 6 of the new Act authorises a Factory
Inspector to forbid a manufacturer to give out work to persons who
inhabit insanitary premises, and if after notice he continues to give
out work to such persons he may be fined ten pounds.
Sec. 6 is not restricted to outworkers but applies in addition to
occupiers of factories, workshops and laundries. It forbids the
making, cleaning, or repairing of wearing apparel " in any dwelling
house, or building occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the
dwelling house is suffering from Scarlet Fever, or Small Pox ; then
unless the occupier or contractor proves that he was not aware of the
existence of the illness in the dwelling house and could not reasonably
have been expected to become aware of it, he shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding ten pounds."
In the administration of this section, which requires provision of
means of escape in case of fire, the London County Council takes
the place of the Sanitary Authority in the administrative County of
London.
It will thus be seen that certain Sanitary provisions of the Factory
Acts in workshops can only be enforced by the Sanitary Authority,
and some by H. M. Inspe ctors, while others can only be worked by
the conjoint action of the two Authorities. Moreover a new principle
is introduced by the 1895 Act, and, for the first time, a Sanitary
Authority is required to report its proceedings to the Factory
OUTWORKERS
Factory Act
91 Sec. 27
amended byFactory
Act
1895, Sees. 5, 6
and 42.
Safety in case
of Fire.
Factory Act
1891, Sec. 7.
GENERAL.