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In calculating the number of conveniences required by this
order, any odd number of persons less than 25, 40, or 60, as the case
may be, shall be reckoned as 25, 40, or 60.
2. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state,
shall be sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not communicate
with any workroom except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space: provided that in workrooms in use prior to
1st January, 1903, and mechanically ventilated in such a manner that
air cannot be drawn into the workroom 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.
During the year 4 cases of insufficient sanitary accommodation
in relation to factories, workshops and workplaces,
and two cases where separate accommodation for persons of
each sex was not provided have been remedied. In addition,
in 116 instances in which the sanitary conveniences were found