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FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1878.
Special provisions for Health in certain Factories and Workshops.
Sec. 33. For the purpose of securing the observance of the requirements of
this Act as to cleanliness in every factory and workshop, all the inside
walls of the rooms of a factory or workshop, and all the ceilings or tops
of such rooms (whether such walls, ceilings, or tops be plastered or not)
and all the passages and staircases of a factory or workshop, if they have
not been painted with oil or varnished once at least within seven years,
shall be limewashed once at least within every fourteen months, to date
from the period when last limewashed ; and if they have been so
painted or varnished shall be washed with hot water and soap once at
least within every fourteen months, to date from the period when last
washed.
Sec. 34. (a) Where a bakehouse is situate in any city, town, or place containing,
according to the last published Census for the time being, a
population of more than five thousand persons, all the inside walls of
the rooms of such bakehouse, and all the ceilings or tops of such rooms
whether such walls, ceilings, or tops be plastered or not, and all the
passages and staircases of such bakehouse, shall either be painted with
oil, or varnished, or be limewashed, or be partly painted, or varnishedand
partly limewashed ; where painted with oil or varnished there shall
be three coats of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be
renewed once at least in every seven years, and shall be washed with hot
water and soap once at least in every six months; where limewashed
the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six months.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
Sec. 25. (1) Where on the certificate of a Medical Officer of Health or
Sanitary Inspector, it appears to any sanitary authority that the limewashing,
cleansing, or purifying of any workshop (other than a bakehouse),
or of any part thereof, is necessary for the health of the persons
employed therein, the sanitary authority shall serve notice in writing
on the owner or occupier of the workshop to limewash, cleanse, or
purify the workshop or part, as the case requires, within the time specified
in the notice, and if the person on whom notice is so served fails to
comply therewith, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds,
and to a further fine not exceeding ten shillings for every day during
which he continues to make default after conviction; and the sanitary
authority may, if they think fit, cause the workshop or part to be limewashed,
cleansed, or purified, and may recover in a summary manner
the expenses incurred by them in so doing from the person on whom the
notice was served.