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Suitable washing conveniences are to be provided in any factory or workshop
where lead, arsenic or any other poisonous substance is used.
A reasonable temperature must be maintained in every room of a factory
or workshop.
The occupier of every factory and workshop must make an annual return
of all persons employed, with their age and sex.
The occupier of a workshop must send to the Factory Inspector a written
notice of the name and address of the workshop, and the nature of the work
done therein, and this notice must be forthwith forwarded by the Factory
Inspector to the Sanitary Authority.
Lists of outworkers have to be sent twice yearly to the Factory Inspector
by the occupiers and contractors of the factories and workshops in which the
following occupations are carried on :—
The manufacture of articles of wearing apparel.
The manufacture of electro-plate.
Cabinet and furniture making and upholstering work.
The manufacture of files.
The giving out of work for the manufacture of wearing apparel.
It is desirable that these lists should be re-arranged into lists of outworkers
living in the separate Sanitary Districts by the Factory Department
of the Home Office and sent to the Medical Officers of Health of the
respective districts.
Processes in which yellow chromate of lead is used have been added to
the list of those previously certified by the Home Secretary to be dangerous
to health, and therefore require the adoption of special precautions and
regulations.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts.
Particulars of legal proceedings will be given by the Clerk to the Board
in his report; and the Public Analyst gives you details of analyses under the
Food and Drugs and Margarine Acts in his report.
I take this opportunity to thank all the members and officers of the Board
for their kindness, courtesy, and active co-operation.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
W. A. BOND,
Medical Officer of Health.