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true cases, for the diagnosis was confirmed by bacteriological
observation; 3 cases were certainly not true cases, and the
remaining 24 were probably true cases, but the diagnosis
was not confirmed by bacteriological observations.
Two children in different parts of St. Marylebone, the
one aged 9, the other 6, have suffered from the malady ; in
neither case has there been any spread.
Florists and the Factory Acts.
The Factory and Workshop Act of 1901, sect. 149,
applies the Act to any premises in which any manual
labour is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain
in or incidental to any of the following purposes, namely:
(1) The making of any article or part of any article.
(2) The altering, repairing, ornamenting or finishing
of any article, or
(3) The adapting for sale of any article.
These provisions have lately not been applied to Florists'
establishments, for one of the stipendiary magistrates decided
that as flowers were a natural and not a manufactured
article, they did not come under the Act; this decision has
now been appealed against,* and it has been definitely laid
down by the High Court that the preparing of a natural
article for sale is included in the definitions of the Factory
Acts.
This decision will affect at least eight Florists' establishments
in the Borough.
Query. At Oxford Circus and similar standing places
where Flower-sellers congregate they are to be seen daily
arranging and re-arranging their flowers, or making up
flowers for the buttonhole. Do such localities become
"Work-places?"
*Hoare v. Green.