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(5) If any occupier of a factory, or workshop, or laundry, or
of any place from which any work is given out, or any
contractor employed by any such occupier, causes
or allows wearing apparel to be made, cleaned, or
repaired in any dwelling-house or building occupied
therewith, whilst any inmate of the dwelling-house
is suffering from scarlet fever or small-pox, then,
unless he proves that he was not aware of the
existence of the illness in the dwelling-house, and
could not reasonably have been expected to become
aware of it, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
ten pounds. (Sect. 6.)
(6) So far as regards sanitary provisions, affixing of notices,
etc., the Factory Act shall have effect as if every
laundry in which steam, water, or other mechanical
power is used in aid of the laundry process, were a
factory, and every other laundry were a workshop.
(7) In case of every laundry worked by steam, water, or
other mechanical power—
(a) A fan, or other means of a proper construction shall be
provided, maintained, and used for regulating the
temperature in every ironing-room, and for carrying
away the steam in every washhouse in the laundry.
(b) All stoves for heating irons shall be sufficiently separated
from any ironing-room, and gas irons emitting any
noxious fumes, shall not be used; and
(c) The floors shall be kept in a good condition, and drained
in such manner as will allow the water to flow off
freely
N.B.—Laundries in which the only persons employed
are—