[Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Maidstone U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Maidstone (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1903
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Credit: [Report 1903] / Medical Officer of Health, Maidstone U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Workshops; (4) and Work-places. For the purposes of the Act, a factory is a place where mechanical power is employed ; in a workshop no such mechanical power is used. Domestic factories and domestic workshops are broadly speaking private houses used for purposes of carrying* on work, which would otherwise be carried on in a factory or work¬ shop. A work-place is mentioned for the first time in this Act and includes such places as stable-yards, kitchens of restaurants and other places not being private houses where people habitually carry on work. A register of all workshops in the District has been kept up, as far as possible, in which a record of the cubic space is entered, with the number of work¬ people allowed to work in each shop. These facts are communicated to the occupier and frequent inspections have been made to see that the regulations as regards cleanliness, air space (250 cubic feet per person, 400 cubic feet during overtime), ventilation and drainage are complied with. Under the Act lists of homewvorkers, giving their names and addresses are required to be furnished twice yearly, 1st February and 1st August, and copies kept at the place of business. This is with the object of enabling the houses of these people to be inspected as regards cleanliness, air space, &c., and also with the view of checking the spread of infectious disease. At present there is great laxity in returning these particulars, but on receipt of them the houses are duly inspected and any sanitary or other defects remedied. Underground Bake-houses.—Section 101 of the Act prohibits the use of underground bake-houses after January 1st, 1904, unless they were so used at