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Poplar 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]

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any premises on which machinery worked by steam, water, or other
mechanical power is temporarily used for the purpose of the
construction of a building, or any structural work in connection with
a building; certain provisions of the Factory Acts relating to the
fencing of machinery, notice of register of accidents, and powers of
inspectors, as if such dock, etc., were a factory, and the purpose for
which the machinery used were a manufacturing process, and as if
the user were the occupier of a factory.
Section (24) substitutes the owner of tenement factory for occupier
for certain purposes.
Section (25) enacts regulations as to grinding and cutlery in a
tenement factory.
Section (26) relates to validity of certificate of fitness in tenement
factory.
Section 27 (1), Sections 34 and 35 of the principal Act shall apply
to every bakehouse, and repeals so much of those Sections as limits
the operation to bakehouses in localities of more than 5000 persons(2)
repeals in Section 15 of the Factory and Workshops Act, 1883,
the words " which was not so let or occupied before the first day of
June One thousand eight hundred and eighty-three." This Section
will now read as—It shall not be lawful to let or suffer to be occupied
as a bakehouse or to occupy as a bakehouse any room or place unless
the following regulations are complied with. (See page 46.)
Now by the 1895 Act every bakehouse must comply with all these
regulations. Prior to the passing of this Act, a bakehouse let or
occupied before the 1st day of June, 1883, was exempted.
Sub-section (3)prohibits the occupation of underground bakehouses
which are not in occupation at the time of the commencement of the
Act.
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