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(b) Air Spaces (Sees 2, 3).—Workshops and Workplaces must
not be overcrowded while work is carried on so as to be dangerous or
injurious to the health of the persons employed, and a Workshop or
Workplace which is overcrowded may be dealt with as a nuisance
under Sec. 91 of the Public Health Act. A Workshop is deemed to
be overcrowded unless in each room at least 250 cubic feet of air
space (or during overtime 400) are allowed for each person employed
in the room, and the Act requires a notice to be affixed in the Workshop
specifying the number of persons who may be employed in
each room of the workshop.
(c) Ventilation (Sees. 2, 7).—Every Workshop and Workplace
must be ventilated in such a manner as to render harmless as far as
practicable any gases, vapours, dust or other impurities generated in
the course of the work that are a nuisance or injurious to health.
Any Workshop or Workplace not so ventilated may be dealt with as a
nuisance under Sec. 91 of the Public Health Act.
(d) Drainage of Floors (Sec. 8).-Every Workshop or part of a
Workshop in which any process is carried on which renders the
floors liable to be wet to such an extent that the wet is capable of
being removed by drainage, adequate means shall be provided for
draining off the wet. A Workshop not so drained may be dealt
with as a nuisance under Sec. 91 of the Public Health Act. This
provision, however, does not apply to Workshops, in which men only
are employed.
(e) Sanitary Accommodation.—The requirements for Workshops
are the same as those for Factories.
The chief Workshop industries in the District are carpenters,
joiners, plumbers, boot repairing, tailors, dressmakers and laundries.
Systematic inspections of the Workshops in the District have
been made with a view to ascertaining if the requirements of the
Act are complied with, and we found that to be the case; speaking
generally the sanitary conditions of all these premises are satisfactory.
Bake-houses.
All Bake-houses within the District are Workshops within the
meaning of the Act, since no mechanical power is used in the process
carried on. The general regulations of the Act, and the special
sanitary regulations for bake-houses contained in the Act are
practically the same as your Bye-laws which have been in force in
the District some years. All the Bake-houses have been inspected
quarterly, and their condition was found to be satisfactory.