View report page

43
A communication was received from the Factory Inspector for
the district, that certain premises at Mount Pleasant were occupied
and in use as a Factory, and that proper sanitary accomodation was
not provided. The premises in question had only recently been
built, and a certificate as to their fitness for occupation had not been
granted. Notice was served, and the premises have since been
closed.
Workshops and Workplaces.
Workshops are defined in the Act, but not workplaces, but
the term is used in the several Public Health Acts, and in a case
under Sec. 38 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, where
the phrase "Factory, Workshop, and Workplace" occurs, it was
held that the word "Workplace" is not to be limited to places
where something is being manufactured or made, but includes any
" place where work is done permanently, and where people
assemble together to do work permanently of some kind or other."
It is therefore a word of wider signification than the word
"workshop." In the case in question a stable and stable yard
where men were employed as cab cleaners and horse keepers was
held to be a workplace. Similarly the Secretary of State has been
advised that the kitchens and restaurants, &c., though they are not
workshops, come within the meaning of the term "workplace."
The Register of workshops and workplaces has been compiled from
enquiries made by the Officers of the Council.
The premises registered are
Workshops and Workplaces 25
Retail Bakehouses 12
Laundries 5
42
The duties imposed with regard to these premises are classified
under four heads.
The Council is responsible for the Sanitary condition of Workshops
and Workplaces in the District:—(1) the Sanitary condition
of Workshops and Workplaces generally; (2) provisions of means of
escape from fire in Workshops; (3) special sanitary regulations for
Bakehouses; (4) Home Work.
(1.) The requirements of the Act in regard to the Sanitary
condition of Workshops and Workplaces which it is the duty of the
District Council to enforce are as follows : —
(a) Cleanliness (Sec. 2).—Every Workshop and Workplace must
be kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia, and if not so kept
may be dealt with by the Council as a nuisance under Sec. 91 of the
Public Health Act, 1875.