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chambers. These ought to be much more capacious
so as to secure more efficient subsidence of the
dust and fluff; but the limited space available on
the premises would appear to preclude the provision
of chambers of adequate size. Screens of sacking
should be employed to detain fine dust. Besides
the injurious nuisance arising from the escape of
filthy dust, which is likely to contain from time to
time the germs of contagious diseases, and so
disseminate disease in the neighbourhood, there is
an additional danger to public health in the
dissemination of disease by means of flocks sent to
furniture dealers. The use of flock beds made from
filthy, and perhaps specifically infected, rags is an
undoubted source of danger to the public.
To summarise:—
1. The factory in question is so situated
as to expose the neighbourhood to nuisance
and danger to health by the dissemination of
filthy dust through the air.
2. The space is too limited to admit of the
construction of settling chambers of adequate
size.
3. The whole of the dust is not passed
through the fire, so as to ensure destruction
of its deleterious components.
4. No disinfecting process is applied to
the rags and flocks; but this is a customary
defect in the manufacture of low class flocks.