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fever exist, but for this provision again no power of enforcement
is apparently given to the metropolitan sanitary authority,
but only to the factory inspector, although the medical officer
of health of the district would be the first person who would
know of the existence of such diseases, because of the certificate
(notification) sent him under the regulations of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
Section 32 provides for the maintenance of a reasonable
temperature, but as I have already pointed out this section
gives no power of enforcement to a Metropolitan Sanitary
Authority.
Section 41 provides that the person who is in occupation of
a workshop at the commencement of the Act shall, before
the expiration of twelve months from the commencement of
this Act (1895) give notice of occupation to the factory inspector
who is to forthwith give notice also to the sanitary
authority.
Finally, section 35 brings again directly under dual control
every factory and workshop in the metropolis (whilst leaving
some of the principal country districts to the sanitary authority)
as to the provision of sanitary conveniences, notwithstanding
the special powers conferred upon a metropolitan sanitary
authority by sec. 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
The said sanitary authority by sec. 2, sub-sec. 2, Factory and
Workshops Act, 1891, and sec. 3, sub-sec. 2, of 1895 Act shall
deal with the matter within one month.
Laundries.
Section 22, sub-sec. 4, so far as sanitary provisions, &c., are
concerned,the Factory Acts shall have effect as if every laundry
in which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in
aid of the laundry process were a factory and every other
laundry were a workshop, and as if every occupier of a laundry
were the occupier of a factory or of a workshop.
Bakehouses.
By sec. 141, Public Health (London) Act, "a bakehouse is
defined to mean any place in which bread, biscuits, or confectionery
are baked, for the selling of which a profit is derived."
A bakehouse, if mechanical power is in use therein, is a
factory, otherwise it is a workshop. The special powers of a
Sanitary Authority within a bakehouse, which is a workshop,
are conveyed by sec. 26, Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
which incorporates the powers of secs. 34, 35 and 81 of the
Factory and Workshops Act, 1878, and secs. 15 and 16 of the
Factory and Workshops Acts, 1883, to be enforced by the
Sanitary Authority, and are strengthened by sec. 27, subsec.
2, of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1895.