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Hackney 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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place is found by the Court having cognizance of the case to be so
injurious or dangerous, he shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
Section 6 Renders any occupier of a factory or workshop or
laundry or contractor employed by such occupier liable to a fine of
£5, if he knowingly causes or allows any 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.
LAUNDRIES.
Section 22 (i) (iv) As regards sanitary provision, safety, etc.,
in the case of laundries this paragraph enacts that the Factory
Acts shall have effect as if every laundry in which steam, water, or
other mechanical power is used in aid of the laundry process were
a factory, and every other laundry were a workshop; and as if
every occupier of a laundry were the occupier of a factory or a
workshop. (3) Provides that nothing in this Section 22 shall apply
to any laundry in which the only persons employed are (c) Members
of the same family dwelling there, or in which not more than two
persons dwelling elsewhere are employed.
BAKEHOUSES.
Section 27 (1) applies Section 34 and 35 of the principal Act to
all bakehouses, and repeals the limitation of those sections to cities,
towns, and places having a population of more than five thousand
persons, (2) Repeals the words, "which was not so let or occupied
before the first day of June, 1883," in Section 15 of the Factory
and Workshop Act, 1883. (3) Prohibits the use of any underground
place as a bakehouse, unless it was so used at the commencement
of this Act.
Section 29 (1) provides that every medical practitioner attending
on or called in to visit a patient suffering from lead, phosphorus,