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a factory inspector that the place where the work is done is dangerous
or injurious to health, he is prohibited under a maximum penalty of
£10 from giving out work to be done in that place after the expiration
of one month from receipt of the notice.
Section (6) imposes a penalty upon an occupier of a factory or
workshop, or laundry, or of any place from which any work is given
out, or any contractor employed by any such employer for allowing
wearing apparel to be made, &c., in any dwelling-house or building
occupied therewith, whilst any inmate of the dwelling house is suffering
from scarlet fever or small-pox, unless he proves he was not aware of
the existence of the illness.
It seems strange that this clause does not include any of the other
dangerous infectious diseases typhus and puerperal fevers, &c.,
specified in Section 55, Sub-section (8) of the Public Health (London)
Act 1891.
Section 10 (1) gives power to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction on
complaint by the Inspector of Factories, to require the occupier of a
factory or workshop to provide a sufficient number of moveable fire
escapes for the safety of his employes.
(2) Relates to immediately and easily unlocking, or unbolting, or
unfastening of doors from the inside of an occupied factory or workshop.
(3) The doors of every factory or workshop in which more persons
than 10 are employed, shall, except in the case of sliding doors be
constructed so as to open outwards.
(4) Includes workshops in Sub-section 1 and 2 of Section 7 of the
Act of 1891, in like manner as they apply to factories in provision
against fire.
In the application of Section 7 of the 1891 Act to the