Lead poisoning : from the industrial, medical, and social points of view. Lectures delivered at the Royal Institute of Public Health.

  • Oliver, Thomas, Sir.
Date:
1914
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    scraps and debris shall be carried out at least once a day. Scraps of clay in potters' shops shall be damped before being carried out. In all drying stoves which are entered by workpeople, boxes shall be provided for the reception of broken or waste clay ware, (iv.) Suitable provisions shall be made forlthe storage of all moulds when not in use. In existing installations, the tops of drying stoves shall not be used for this purpose unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Inspector of Factories for the district that no other suitable place is available. In any new erections, suitable pro- visions shall be made without utilizing the tops of stoves for this purpose, unless the top of the stove is made into a separate chamber. I (c) The floors of all biscuit placing and glost placing shops shall be impervious, even floors, of brick, flag or similar hard material, and shall be kept in good repair ; they shall be thoroughly sprinkled and swept by an adult male whenever the work of setting in an oven has ceased, and under any circumstances at least once a day. *t{ (d) The floors of all dipping houses, dippers' drying rooms, and ware cleaning rooms shall be washable im- pervious floors, and shall be thoroughly cleaned daily by an adult male, after work has ceased for the day, with a sufficient supply of water and a mop or similar implement ■ provided that, in the case of china dippers' drying rooms, this cleaning may be done before work commences in the morning, instead of after work has ceased for the day. The floors of all dipping houses, dippers' drying rooms, and ware cleaning rooms erected after the date on which these Regulations come into force, shall be properly sloped towards a drain. | (e) In any new erection where steam pipes are used for heating a drying stove, dippers' drying room, or any place where articles are left to dry, the pipes shall, if possible, be fixed in the form of a rack of horizontal pipes