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accommodation in the way of sanitary convenience, and with proper separate
accommodation for each sex (where persons of both sexes are or are intended
to be employed or in attendance).
The supervision of the cleanliness and freedom from effluvia from any
drain, sanitary convenience, or other nuisance, ventilation, rendering harmless
as far as practicable any gases, vapours, dust or other impurities, overcrowding,
limewashing, cleansing, and purifying all factories, workshops, and workplaces,
are also uoder the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Authority, with the exception
of those factories defined as above by the Factory Acts.
The Medical Officer of Health must give written notice to the Factory
Inspector when he becomes aware that any child, young person, or woman is
employed in a workshop: a child being a person under fourteen years, a
young person, one over fourteen and under eighteen, and a woman any
female over eighteen years of age.
Laundries—The Factory Acts now apply to laundries, and so far as
regards sanitary provisions, etc., are the same as workshops, except those in
which mechanical power is used, in which case they are considered as
factories within the meaning of the Acts.
Bakehouses —All the sanitary provisions of those that are workshops
("not factories) are enforced by the Sanitary Authority.
By the new Act no new underground bakehouse is now to be opened.
Also by the new Act of 1895, a factory or workshop shall be deemed
overcrowded if the air space in any room therein be less than 250 cubic feet
per head, and 400 cubic feet during overtime. The Home Secretary has the
power to raise this standard as regards particular processes and handicrafts, or
during hours in which artificial light otherwise than electric light is used.
Notices specifying the number of persons who may be employed in each
room of a factory or workshop must be constantly kept affixed.
Where the conditions of work are dangerous to health or to life or to limb,
a Factory Inspector is authorised to prohibit the use of a factory or workshop.
Making, cleansing or repairing wearing apparel in any place or outworker's
dwelling where there is any case of scarlet fever or small-pox, is forbidden
under penalty of /1o.
Written notice of every case of lead, phosphorous, or arsenical poisoning,
or anthrax occurring in a factory or workshop, must be sent by the occupier
to the Factory Inspector and the certifying Factory Surgeon, and any medical
practitioner visiting such a case must notify it to the Chief Inspector of
Factories.