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SANITARY REPORT
For the Year, 1868.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
I have to enumerate several Acts of Parliament
which have either come into operation or have been passed this
year. The Workshop Regulation was passed in 1867, and came
into operation on the first day of January, 1868. By this Act
it is rendered illegal to employ in a workshop or workplace in
which less than fifty persons are employed: (1) a child under
eight years in any handicraft; (2) any child under thirteen
years in any handicraft for a longer period than six and a-half
hours daily, or between eight at night and six in the morning;
(3) any young man or woman under eighteen years of age, or
any woman, for more than twelve hours out of any twenty-four
hours, with intervening period of rest of not less than one and
a-half hours; (4) any child, young person, or woman in any
handicraft on Sunday or after two on Saturday afternoon,
except in cases where not more than five persons are employed
in the same establishment, and where such employment consists
in making or repairing articles to be sold by retail on the premises.
The penalty on the employer is to be not more than
three pounds, and on the parent one pound for each offence.
A fan is to be used in every workshop where grinding, glazing,
or polishing on a wheel, or in which any process is carried on