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"for every 60 males, in addition to sufficient urinal accommodation.
"Any certificate given by an Inspector shall be kept attached to the
"general register, and shall be liable at any time to be revoked by
"notice in writing from the Inspector.
"In calculating the number of conveniences required by this order,
"any odd number of persons less than 25, 40 or 60, as the case may be,
"shall be reckoned as 25, 40, or 60.
"2. Every sanitary convenience shall be kept in a cleanly state, shall
"be sufficiently ventilated and lighted, and shall not communicate with
"any work-room except through the open air or through an intervening
"ventilated space: provided that in work-rooms in use prior to 1st
January, 1903, and mechanically ventilated in such manner that air
"cannot be drawn into the work-room through the sanitary convenience,
"an intervening ventilated space shall not be required.
"3. Every sanitary convenience shall be under cover and so partitioned
"off as to secure privacy, and if for the use of females shall have a
'' proper door and fastenings.
"4. The sanitary conveniences in a factory or workshop shall be
"so arranged and maintained as to be conveniently accessible to all
"persons employed therein at all times during their employment.
"5. Where persons of both sexes are employed, the conveniences for
"each sex shall be so placed or so screened that the interior shall not be
"visible, even when the door of any convenience is open, from any place
"where persons of the other sex have to work or pass; and, if the
"conveniences for one sex adjoin those for the other sex, the approaches
"shall be separate."
"6. This order shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 1903.
"7. This order may be referred to as the Sanitary Accommodation
"Order of 4th February, 1903.
"A. AKERS DOUGLAS,
"One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
"Home Office, Whitehall,
"4th February, 1903."
It is important to note that although the "Order "does not apply to the
Administrative County of London (in which the City is included), nor to any
place where Sec. 22 of the Public Health Amendment Act, 1890, is in force,
it will certainly be the standard generally adopted throughout the country.
On the recommendation of your Medical Officer of Health it has been
accepted by the Sanitary Committee as governing the provision of sufficient
and suitable accommodation under Secs. 37 and 38 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, in the way of sanitary conveniences for both sexes in all
premises where persons are employed or in attendance.