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to be pleased to appoint an Arbitrator and direct a local inquiry to be made. Mr.
. Cubitt Nichols was so appointed. and opened the inquiry on the 23rd October,
1891 A technical difficulty as to the name and extent of the largest area led to
the adjournment of the inquiry. Since then, the matter has remained under the
consideration of the County Council and of your Vestry.
WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, has provided additional powers over
the sanitary condition of workshops and factories, and it will make the powers of
your Vestry clearer if the provisions of the sections are set out in sequence
according to procedure.
Section 10. The Sanitary Authority shall have a right to enter from time to
time any premises (a) for the purpose of examining as to the existence thereon of
any nuisance liable to be dealt with summarily under this Act at any hour by day,
or in the case of a nuisance arising in respect of any business, then at any hour
when the business is in progress or is usually carried on * * *
Section 38 (1) Every factory, workshop, and workplace, whether erected
before or after the passing of this Act, shall be provided with sufficient and
suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences, regard being had to
the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building, and also
where persons of both sexes are, or are intended to be employed, or in attendance,
with pr >per separate accommodation for persons of each sex. (2) Where it appears
to a Sanitary Authority that this section is not complied with in the case of any
factory, workshop, or workplace, the Sanitary Authority shall, by notice served on
the owner or occupier of such factory, workshop, or workplace, require him to
make the alterations and additions necessary to secure such compliance, and if the
person served with such notice fails to comply therewith, he shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and to a fine not exceeding forty shillings for
every day after conviction during which the non-compliance continues.
Section 26.—(1) Sections thirty-four, thirty-five, and eighty-one of the Factory
and Workshops Act, 1878, and Sections fifteen and sixteen of the Factory and
Workshops Act Amendment Act, 1883 (which relate to cleanliness, ventilation,
and other sanitary conditions), shall, as respects every bakehouse which is a workshop,
be enforced by the Sanitary Authority of the district in which the bakehouse
is situate, and they shall be the local authority within the meaning of those
sections.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1878.
Sec. 34. —Where a bakehouse is situate in any city, town, or place, containing, according to
the last published Census for the time being, a population of more than five thousand persons, all
the inside walls of the rooms of such bakehouse, and all the ceilings or tops of such rooms
(whether such walls, ceilings, or tops be plastered or not), and all the passages and staircases
of such bakehouse, shall either be painted with oil or varnished, or be limewashed, or be partly
painted or varnished and partly limewashed; where painted with oil or varnished there shall be
three coa s of paint or varnish, and the paint or varnish shall be renewed once at least in every
seven years, and shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months;
where limewashed the limewashing shall be renewed once at least in every six months.
A bakehouse in which there is any contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be
kept iu conformity with this Act.