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Observations on Part I. The provisions dealing with
temperature and the drainage of floors in general (previously
drainage of floors related only to those circumstances in which
women were employed), are new. Cleanliness, overcrowding,
temperature, ventilation, drainage of floors and sanitary
conveniences are dealt with in more detail than previously.
Part III. Section 41 deals with the supply of drinking
water, requiring that there be provided at suitable points an
adequate supply of wholesome drinking water from a public
main, or from some other source approved in writing by the
district council, such approval not to be withheld except on the
grounds of the unwholesomeness of the water.
Observations on Part III. This duty is not new, having
dated from an Order gazetted 19th October, 1917.
Part IV. Section 54 deals with basement bakehouses—
(1) Any basement bakehouse which for a period exceeding
12 months is not used as a bakehouse shall not be so
used again.
(2) Within a year of the date of the commencement of the
Act the Local Authority must review the basement
bakehouses in their area and in every fifth succeeding
year make such re-examination, and if the Council are
not satisfied that the bakehouse is suitable as regards
construction, height, light, ventilation and any hygienic
respect, they must give notice that the certificate shall
cease to have effect at a stated period not less than one
month, after which period the basement bakehouse
shall not be used as such. Provision is made for right
of appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction.
Observations on Part IV. The obligations of an examination
within a year of the commencement of the Act and of an
examination every five years of basement bakehouses are new.
Part VII. Section 101 deals with tenement factories, these
becoming, as regards sanitary conveniences, drainage of floors,
etc., under the supervision of the Local Authority.
Sections 107 and 108 deal with building operations and
works of engineering construction and provide that the Local
Authority shall enforce therewith the provisions with regard
to sanitary conveniences and the supply of drinking water.
Observations on Part VII. It is a new provrision to bring
into the scope of the Act building operations and works of
engineering construction.
Part VIII. Sections 110 and 111 require the District Council
to be informed of any outworkers, and where the District Council
be of opinion that any place to which out-work is given is
injurious or dangerous to the health of the persons employed
therein, the Council may give notice that after the expiration of
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