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The Factory Act.—A recent Gazette contains the following notification:—
"That the 38th section of the Factory Act, setting forth that a child,
young person, or woman should not be allowed to take a meal, or to remain during
the times allowed for meals in the parts of the factories or workshops to which the
section applies, shall be extended to every factory or workshop in which white lead
is manufactured, except any room thereof used solely for meals, and every part of a
factory or workshop in which part dry powder or dust is used in the processes of
lithographic printing, playing-card making, fancy-box making, paper-staining,
almanac-making, artificial flower making, paper colouring and enamelling, and
colour-making."
THE DISQUALIFICATION BY MEDICAL RELIEF BILL.
As a person suffering from an infectious disease who is removed to
one of the Asylums Board hospitals becomes legally a pauper, he is
thereby liable to be disfranchised, and lose his political rights. In
order to obviate this a Bill was passed by the House of Commons
providing that such hospital treatment should be no disqualification.
The Bill, though it passed through the lower House, was so altered
by amendments that its promoters thought the wiser plan would be to
drop it altogether, which was accordingly done.
INFECTED BEDDING DESTROYED.
As we have no disinfecting apparatus, we continue to destroy all
soiled and infected bedding, unless of sufficient value to pay for its
being disinfected by Messrs. Blythe, whose charge is 10s. 6d. for a
bed, and 3s. 6d. for pillows and bolsters. We find it cheaper to replace
flock beds (previously burning the old ones), but feathers we get purified.
The following is a list of the bedding destroyed and replaced,
and also of the feather beds purified, showing also the cost of the
same:-
BEDDING SUPPLIED DURING 1879.
Quarter ending 24th March.
Beds
14
£
s.
d.
Bolsters
14
Pillows
20
Palliasses
4
Feather Beds purified
2
Ditto Bolsters
1
Quantity of Flock supplied (42 lbs)
1
Total number of Articles
56
13
1