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Over.crowding.
Section 1 of the new Act defines what is over.crowding in
factories or workshops or workplaces.
A workshop is over.crowded if the cubic space in any room
thereof is less than 250 cubic feet for each person employed, or,
during any period of overtime, less than 400 cubic feet for each
person.
Notice of number of
persons to be affixed
to walls of workshop.
This section also gives the Secretary of State power to increase
the amount of cubic space for each person when necessary, for any
period during which artificial light, other than electric light, is used;
and requires a notice of the number of persons who may be employed
in each room of the factory or workshop to be affixed to the walls
of the room, in accordance with the provision of section 75 of the
principal Act.
As to notice of
Factory Inspeotor
to Sanitary
Authority.
Section 8 provides that where notice of an act, neglect, or default
is given by a factory inspector under section 4 of the principal Act
to a sanitary authority, it shall be the duty of the sanitary
authority to inform the factory inspector within one month of the
proceedings taken in consequence of the notice.
Penalty Section.
By Section 5, a penalty, on summary conviction, can be imposed
for the employment of persons in places injurious or dangerous to
health. This section, however, will only apply in such cases as may
from time to time be specified by the Secretary of State, by Order
made in accordance with section 65 of the principal Act.
Under this section the factory inspector would give the notice
and take the necessary proceedings.
Infectious Diseaso.
Section 6 is an important addition from a public health point
of view, and is as follows:—
"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."
Penal Compensation
Section 13 provides for penal compensation to persons suffering
injury to health in consequence of the occupier of a factory or