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or arsenical poisoning or anthrax, contracted in any factory or workshop,
shall notify the same to the Chief Inspector of Factories at
the Home Office, London, with the name and full postal address of
the patient, and the disease from which patient is suffering,
for which he will receive the sum of two shillings and sixpense. (2)
If a medical practitioner fails to send a notice as required by above,
he will be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
Section 41 provides that every person in occupation of a workshop
at the commencement of this Act shall, before the expiration
of twelve months from its commencement, unless he has already
done so, serve on the inspector of the district, a written notice
containing the name of the workshop, the place where it is situate,
the address to which he desires his letters to be addressed, the
nature of the work, and the name of the person or firm under which
the business of the workshop is carried on, and in default shall be
liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. Any notice so served
shall bo forthwith forwarded to the Sanitary Authority of the
district in which the workshop is situate.
CANAL BOATS ACTS.
At the beginning of 1895 a new arrangement was
made for the inspection of canal boats passing through
the Hackney District. The arrangement was the appointment of
one of the Sanitary Inspectors to devote one whole day
per week to this duty. The year's work shows that 82
boats were inspected and re-inspected, that 70 of these
were found to conform to the acts and regulations, and 12 were
found not to be in accordance with them. The owners of three were
prosecuted for not being provided with a certificate of registration,
and a fourth owner for not having the boat registered in accordance
with the Acts.