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for the mouth and nostrils and head covering, and for every
person working at any dry stove or rollers an overall suit
with head covering and respirator. Work people are also to
have a sufficient supply of acidulated drink. Not later than
three months after the passing of the Act each occupier of a
white lead factory shall frame and transmit to the Chief
Inspector for approval by a Secretary of State special rules
for such factory ; these rules, when established, shall be observed
in and about the factory as if they were enacted by
the Act.
The same Act, as already stated, replaces in the hand, of the
Vestries not only the powers they formerly possessed under the
Bakehouse Regulation Act, but certain increased powers
concerning bakehouses not let or occupied before the first day
of June, 1883. With regard to the latter:
1.—No water.closet, earth.closet, privy, or ashpit, shall
be within or communicate directly with the bakehouse.
2.—Any cistern for supplying water to the bakehouse
shall be separate and distinct from any cistern for
supplying water to a water.closet.
3. No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage
matter shall have an opening within the bakehouse.
The penalty for any infringement of the above is a fine not
exceeding forty shillings and a further fine not exceeding five
shillings for every day the offence is continued after conviction.
Again, where any place used as a bakehouse (whether the
same was or was not so used before the passing of this Act),
is in such a state as to be on sanitary grounds unfit for use
or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings,
and on subsequent conviction not exceeding five pounds.
The court of summary jurisdiction in addition to, or instead
of inflicting such fine may order means to be adopted by the
occupier for the purpose of removing the grounds of complaint.
The Medical Officer of Health has all powers of entry,
inspection, taking legal proceedings, and otherwise.