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3. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state,
shall be sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not communicate
with any work-room, except through the open air or through an
intervening ventilated space.
4. Every sanitary convenience shall have a proper door and
fastenings, and be so enclosed as to secure privacy.
5. The sanitary conveniences in a factory or workshop shall be so
arranged and maintained as to be conveniently accessible to all
persons employed therein at all times during their employment.
6. Where persons of both sexes are employed the conveniences
provided for each sex shall be completely separate with separate
screened approaches.
Some of the difficulty, in equitably and suitably arranging
these matters arises from the questions of leasehold
which constantly crop up in a district like Finsbury in the midst
of a transition period between a residential Borough and a
commercial Borough.
During the year 43 additional sanitary conveniences have been
constructed in relation to factories and workshops, and 257 such
conveniences have been cleansed and repaired; 23 urinals having
been cleansed and repaired.
Much of the work under the Factory and Workshop Act has
been interrupted during the year by the epidemic of small-pox,
during which time the Workshop Inspector was engaged on
emergency work in connection with cases of small-pox. Consequently
the systematic inspection of workshops throughout the
Borough has not been as extensive as it might and ought to have
been. Notwithstanding this, however, 1958 visits of inspection
have been made to factories and workshops by the Workshop
Inspector, and a large amount of work has been accomplished.
In addition to this, the other inspectors in the ordinary course
of their duties on their several districts have inspected 71 workshops.
The chief matters arising in relation to this work are set
out in the following table :—