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Section 33.—This section extends the 36th section of the Act
of 1878, which requires factories and workshops where certain
dusts, &c., are given off, to be ventilated by the use of a fan or
other artificial means, to any workshop "where any process is
carried on by which any gas, vapour, or other impurity is generated
and inhaled by the workers' to an injurious extent." This
provision is one which must be deemed vital to health, but there
is no statement that the local authorities are to see to its enforcement.
It would not be unduly stretching the clause to make it
apply to a workshop where much gas was burned, but it is
doubtful if such were the intention of the legislature.
Section 35.—This section is practically the same as Section 38
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and deals with the
provision of sufficient and suitable water-closet accommodation.
Section 41. —Under Sec. 26 of the Act, 1891, it was enacted
that notice should be sent to the factory inspector of the district
of any workshop opened in the district, such notice to be sent
within one month of opening. These notices are sent to the local
authorities by the factory inspector. By the 41st Sec. of the Act
of 1895, all persons occupying workshops, who have not sent
notices under 26th Sec. of the Act of 1891, must send notice of
occupation in the course of the year 1896, and the factory
inspector is to forward the notices on to the local authority. The
district inspector of factories has been approached with a view
to obtaining a list of all the workshops in Paddington.
Section 42.—Pursuant to the 27th Sec. of the Act of 1891,
the Home Secretary issued an order, known as the " Outworkers'
Order," requiring the occupiers of certain workshops to make and
keep lists of all the persons employed by them outside the workshop
or factory, together with the addresses of the places where
they worked, such lists to be open to inspection by the factory
inspector and the officials of the local authority. By the 42nd
Sec. of the Act of 1895, it is prescribed that such lists shall be
made up and sent to the district factory inspector on the first
days of March and September of each year, showing the names
of all persons directly employed as workmen or as contractors
outside the workshop and the addresses where they are employed.