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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
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partitioned oft' 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 ail persons
employed therein at all times during their employment.
5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, (he 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.
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Home Office, Whitehall,
4th February, 1903.
Since the formation of the Metropolitan Borough Council in 1900,
we have had a considerable number of cases where it has been
necessary to require increased sanitary convenience accommodation,
separate accommodation, &c., and since the issue of the Order of
the Home Secretary, 4th February, 1903, we have adopted that
standard as the one guiding us in all such cases in this Borough,
although previously we adopted one in twenty as a uniform standard,
and this was always complied with. Therefore the Home
Secretary's Order was more lenient than the practice which had
been in vogue in this Borough previously.
Under the guidance of the Order of the 4th February, 1903, we
have issued Notices in 81 instances, in all of which there has been
compliance. In no case has it been necessary to contest the point
in court. From the following Table of illustrative cases it will be
seen that we have issued Notices for unsuitability as well as
insufficiency, and have obtained compliance on both issues in all
cases.