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Section 28 (1) Power to prohibit or restrict employment in dangerous
trades, and Sub-section (2) extends this same power, as well
as the special rules and requirements as to dangerous and unhealthy
incidents of employment, to workshops conducted on the system of
not employing any child, young person, or woman therein, i.e. a
domestic workshop. All prohibitions and restrictions have to be
certified by the Secretary of State under Section 8 (1) of the 1891
Act.
The 29th Section contains one of the most important provisions in
the Act, and requires medical practitioners to notify cases of lead,
phosphorus or arsenical poisoning, or anthrax contracted in any
factory or workshop. The notification is to be sent to the Chief
Inspector of Factories at the Home Office, London ; the notice is to
state name and full postal address of the patient and the disease, for
which notification a fee of two shillings and sixpence will be paid.
The notice is only to be sent when the case has not been previously
notified, and differs from the notification of infectious diseases, under
the Public Health (London) Act, under which Act every practitioner
notifying a case is entitled to a fee.
It is quite possible under this Section of the Factory Act 1895, that
the medical practitioner may have no definite knowledge that the
case has been notified before, and if any medical practitioner when
required by this Section to send a notice fails forthwith to forward
the same, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
Written notice of the cases as if they were accidents are also to be
sent to the Inspector and Factory Surgeon. Other diseases may be
included by the Secretary of State.
By Section (30) every factory or workshop where lead, arsenic, or
any other poisonous substance is used shall be provided with suitable
washing conveniences for the use of the persons employed in any
department where such substances are used.
Section (31) The Cotton Cloth Factories Act, 1889, shall apply to