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'The above section refers to any " workshops or class of workshops
and laundries," in a district. Section 4 of the "principal Act" refers
to any individual workshop. It requires a Factory Inspector to give
notice in writing to the Sanitary Authority of any act. neglect or
default in relation to any drain, water-closet, ashpit, water supply,
nuisance, etc. in a factory or workshop; and it then becomes the duty
of the Sanitary Authority to take the necessary action for the purpose
of enforcing the law. After the 1st January, 1896. it will be the duty
of the Sanitary Authority, within one month after receipt of the said
notice, to inform the Factory Inspector of the proceedings taken in
consequence thereof. Should the Sanitary Authority not take proceedings
in any such case, the Factory Inspector may take the necessary
proceedings and recover from the Sanitary Authority the expenses incurred
by him in so doing.
'It is, as already stated, the duty of the Sanitary Authority to
enforce Section 2 (1) (g) of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
which includes in the list of " nuisances liable to be dealt with summarily
under this Act," the following:—
"Any factory, workshop or workplace, which is not a factory
subject to the provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1878,
relating to cleanliness, ventilation and overcrowding, and
(i.) Is not kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia
arising from any drain, water closet, &c., or other
nuisance, or
(ii.) Is not ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless
any gas, vapours, dust or other impurities generated
therein that are a nuisance or injurious or dangerous to
health, or
(iii.) Is so overcrowded while work is carried on as to be injurious
or dangerous to the health of those employed
therein."
'Overcrowding.—The Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, Section
1, defines overcrowding by specifying the amount of air space required
to be given to each of the persons employed in a workroom, viz., not
less than 250 cubic feet of space, or during any period of overtime not
less than 400 cubic feet of space, to every such person. It will be the
duty of the Sanitary Authority on and after January 1st, 1896, to
enforce the provisions of this sub-section.
'The Vestry have required the provision of space on the above
scale since the Women Inspectors were appointed in 1893,
Factory and
Workshi p Act,
1878, sec. 4.
Factory and
W orkshop Act,
1891, sec. 2 (1)
(2) , amended by
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec. 3.
Public Health
(London; Act,
1891, sec. 2 (1)
(g).
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec 1(1)
ana (2).