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Powers and Duties as to Home Workers.
Power of Entry.
I. Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, Section 119 and 125.
II. Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Section 10.
III. City of London Sewers Act, 1848, Section 98.
IV. London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Section 24.
Power to Act.
I. Public Health (London) Act 1891.
In case of Nuisance, Section 2 (I) (a) and (g), (I), (II), (III).
In case of Overcrowding, Section 4, (3), (c).
For cleansing any Workshop or Workplace, Section 25 (1)
and (2).
In case of Infectious Disease, Sections 55-68.
II. London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904.
Filthy, dangerous or unwholesome articles to be purified, Section 19.
Houses infested with vermin to be cleansed, Section 20.
III. City of London Sewers Acts.
Unwholesome houses, Medical Officer of Health, power to condemn,
1851, Section 41.
Requiring cleansing of house and removal of nuisance, 1848,
Section 77, and penalty on-recurrence, 1851, Section 5.
Power to order cleansing of house, 1848, Section 81.
IV. Powers under Bye-laws made under Section 94, Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
Where work is carried on in houses let in lodgings.
V. Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Section 32,
Duty of inspection of Dwelling-houses.
The Corporation is the Authority for carrying out in the City of London the
provisions of the Employment of Children Act, 1903, and has made bye-laws
under Section 1 (1) of the said Act.