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Also by the new Act of 1895, a factory or workshop shall
be deemed overcrowded if the air space in any room therein
be less than 250 cubic feet per head, and 400 cubic feet during
overtime. The Home Secretary has the power to raise this
standard as regards particular processes and handicrafts, or
during hours in which artificial light otherwise than electric
light is used.
Notices specifying the number of persons who may be
employed in each room of a factory or workshop must be
constantly kept affixed.
Where the conditions of work are dangerous to health or
to life or to limb a Factory Inspector is authorised to prohibit
the use of a factory or workshop.
Making, cleansing or repairing wearing apparel in any place
or outworker's dwelling where there is any case of scarlet fever
or small-pox is forbidden under penalty of £10.
Written notice of every case of lead, phosphorus or arsenical
poisoning, or anthrax occuring in a factory or workshop must
be sent by the occupier to the Factory Inspector and the
Certifying Factory Surgeon; and any medical practitioner
visiting such a case must notify it to the Chief Inspector of
Factories.
Suitable washing conveniences are to be provided in any
factory or workshop where lead, arsenic or any other poisonous
substance is used.
A reasonable temperature must be maintained in every
room of a factory or workshop.
The occupier of every factory and workshop must make an
annual return of all persons employed, with their age and sex.