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No water-closet may be within or communicate directly with
a bakehouse, nor may any drain have an opening within the
bakehouse.
'After the first day of January, 1896, a place underground may
not newly be used as a bakehouse.
'The officers of the Sanitary Authority have the same power of
entry to a bakehouse for enforcing the above provisions, as they have
into any premises for any purpose in relation to nuisances.
'Laundries which are Workshops.—Laundries have hitherto
been subject, as "workplaces," to all the sanitary provisions of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, respecting overcrowding, cleanliness,
limewashing, and freedom from effluvia, which provisions apply
equally to "workshops" and "workplaces." Their inclusion under the
term "workshop" in the Factory and Workshop Act, 1895, does not
therefore, materially affect the position of the Sanitary Authority with
regard to them, excepting that, as the law with respect to overcrowding
of rooms in a workshop, to which reference has already been made,
applies equally to rooms 'in a laundry, it will be the duty of the
Sanitary Authority to see that the provisions of Section 1 of the Act of
1895, as to the amount of cubic space required to be given to the
workers, are duly observed.
'It is to be assumed, moreover, that it will be the duty of the
Sanitary Authority to enforce the provision contained in Section 6 of
the Act of 1895, to the effect that if any occupier of a laundry causes
or allows wearing apparel to be cleaned in any dwelling-house or
building occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the dwelling-house
is (within his knowledge) suffering from scarlet fever or small-pox, he
will be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
'Temperature in Workrooms.—' Adequate measures are to be
taken for securing and maintaining a reasonable temperature in each
room of a workshop in which any person is employed.' The penalty
for default is a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
'This requirement is based on considerations relating to public
health, and it will be for the Sanitary Authority to see that this provision
of the Act is enforced.
'fit will be remembered that the Vestry decided, when considering
the Bill, that a temperature of 55˚ Fahr., may properly be considered
"reasonable." And, no reference having been made to the means
by which the required heat should be generated, and no restrictive
provision having been laid down, the Vestry desired that a sub-clause
should be added to the Bill to the effect that "heating by gas burners
intended for lighting purposes should be prohibited, and that
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1883, sec. 15
amended by
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec. 27.
sub-sec. (3).
Public Health
(London) Act,
1891, sec. 26 (2).
Public Health
(London) Act,
1891, sec. 3(1)
(g), sec. 35
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec. 22 (iv.)
Factory and
Workshop Act.
1895. sec. 22,
sub-sec 1 (iv.)
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec. 6.
Factory and
Workshop Act,
1895, sec. 32.