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through an intervening ventilated space: provided that in workrooms
in use prior to 1st January, 1903, and mechanically ventilated
in such manner that air cannot be drawn into the work-room
through the sanitary convenience, an intervening ventilated space
shall not be required.
3. Every sanitary convenience shall be under cover and so partitioned
off as to secure privacy, and if for the use of females
shall have a proper door and fastenings.
4. 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.
5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, the conveniences
for each sex shall be so placed or so screened that the interior
shall not be visible, even when the door of any convenience is
open, from any place where persons of the other sex have to
work or pass; and, if the conveniences for one sex adjoin those
for the other sex, the approaches shall be separate.
6. This order shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1903.
7. This order may be referred to as the Sanitary Accommodation
Order of 4th February, 1903.
A. Akers Douglas,
One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Home Office, Whitehall,
4th February, 1903.
Some of the difficulty in arranging these matters equitably and
suitably 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 an industrial Borough.
During the year 35 notices have been served for insufficient
sanitary convenience accommodation in relation to factories, workshops
and workplaces, and 304 such conveniences have been
cleansed and repaired. Insufficient sanitary convenience accommodation
includes seven cases in which no convenience of any kind
was provided. In one of these cases as many as 50 men were in
attendance.