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institutions," are to be treated as non-textile factories and workshops
within the meaning of the Factory Act, 1901. The new Act prescribes
certain rules for the hours of employment of women and young persons
in laundries, and makes regulations for ventilation, the use of gas irons
emitting noxious fumes, and the drainage of floors. It also applies
certain provisions of the Factory Act to institutions where any manual
labour is exercised in or incidentally to the making, &c., of articles not
to be used for the institution. Another section of the new Act provides
for the inspection by factory inspectors of certain government departments
which at present do not come within the definition of the term
factory on the ground that no process is carried on therein for the
purposes of gain. Hotels and other institutions which carry on laundry
work are now made amenable to the Factory Acts.