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5. That the prescribed notice specifying the number of persons who may be
employed in each room is duly affixed at the entrance to the workshop, or that
the fact is otherwise made known.
6. That a reasonable temperature is maintained in each workroom.
7. That it is limewashed, cleansed, or purified, when necessary for health,
as certified by an officer of the Sanitary Authority—bakehouses being excepted
and otherwise provided for.
8. That it is provided with sufficient and suitable sanitary conveniences for
each sex.
9. That note is made of the employment of protected persons, in order that
the Factory Inspector may be informed.
10. That the list of outworkers is inspected.
In the case of any act, neglect, or default punishable or remediable under
the law relating to public health in a factory or a workshop coming to the
knowledge of a Factory Inspector, he is required to give notice thereof to the
Sanitary Authority of the district in writing. Thereupon it is the duty of
the Sanitary Authority to take action within one month, and to inform the
Inspector of the proceedings taken. If no proceedings are taken the Factory
Inspector is empowered to take like proceedings, and to recover the cost from
the Sanitary Authority. Furthermore, if the Secretary of State is satisfied
that the provisions of the law relating to public health are not being observed
in any workshops of a district, or in any particular class of workshops, he
may, by order, direct a Factory Inspector to enforce the provisions, and take
proceedings, and recover the cost from the Sanitary Authority.
In addition to the ordinary requirements for a workshop already enumerated,
it is also the duty of a Sanitary Authority, with regard to every bakehouse
within its district, to see:—
1. That the inside walls, ceilings, &c., are (a) either painted or varnished
every seven years and washed every six months, or are (b) limewashed every
six months.
2. That a sleeping place is effectually separated from any bakehouse in the
same building, and is lighted and ventilated by an external window at least
nine feet square, one-half being made to open.
3. That a bakehouse cistern is separate and distinct from any water-closet
cistern.
4. That any water-closet, earth-closet, privy, or ashpit is cut off from direct
communication with a bakehouse.
5. That no drain or pipe for carrying off fœcal or sewage matter has an
opening in the bakehouse.
6. That no bakehouse is in such a state as to be, on sanitary grounds, unfit
for use as a bakehouse.
7. That no underground bakehouse is newly brought into use.