The Law relating to factories and workshops (including laundries and docks).

Date:
1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Law relating to factories and workshops (including laundries and docks). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Secretary of State. Penalties. Distinction between factories and workshops. Law relating factories. Cleanliness, Sec. 1878, s. 3. Surgeons, who are appointed for particular districts by the Chief Inspector of Factories, and whose duties are to examine children and young persons with a view to granting to them certificates of fitness for employment, and to in- vestigate and report on accidents occurring in a factory or a workshop. The general administration of the Acts is largely under the control of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, who has extensive powers of determining the limits within which particular pro- visions of the Acts are to be in operation. In the event of breaches of any provisions of the Acts, penalties are imposed which may be recovered before courts of summary jurisdiction, and factory inspectors are empowered to take proceedings to recover the penalties. CHAPTER II. Sanitary Provisions. Under this head it will be convenient to treat factories and workshops separately, since the main part of the law which governs them is contained in different Acts and administered by different authorities. At the end of the chapter will be found certain miscellaneous sanitary provisions introduced by the Act of 1895, with regard to which workshops are on the same footing as factories. A.—Factories. The sanitary conditions required fall under three heads, (a) cleanliness and freedom from effluvia, (b) overcrowding, (c) ventilation. (a.) Cleanliness, &c.—It is required generally that a factory shall be kept in a cleanly state, and that it shall be free from effluvia arising from any drain, watercloset, earthcloset, privy, urinal, or other nuisance. In particular