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conveniences, and with proper separate accommodation for
each sex (where persons of both sexes are or are intended to
be employed, or in attendance).
The supervision of the cleanliness and freedom from effluvia
from any drain, sanitary convenience or other nuisance, ventilation,
rendering harmless as far as practicable any gases,
vapours, dust or other impurities, overcrowding, limewashing,
cleansing and purifying of all factories, workshops and workplaces
are also under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary Authority,
with the exception of those factories defined as above by the
Factory Acts.
The Medical Officer of Health must give written notice to
the Factory Inspector when he becomes aware that any child,
young person or woman is employed in a workshop; a child
being a person under fourteen; a young person, one over
fourteen and under eighteen; and a woman, any female over
eighteen.
Laundries.—The Factory Acts now apply to laundries, and
so far as regards sanitary provisions, &c., are the same as
workshops, except those in which mechanical power is used, in
which case they are considered as factories within the meaning
of the Acts.
Bakehouses.—All the sanitary provisions of those that
are workshops (not factories) are enforced by the Sanitary
Authority.
By the new Act no new underground bakehouse is now to
be opened.