Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office].

Date:
1929
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Credit: Factory and workshop orders : 1929 edition / [Home Office]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    direct that, where a workshop other than a domestic workshop is occupied by day as a workshop and by night as a sleeping place, the proportion of cubic feet of space prescribed in sub-section (1) of the said section shall be modified by substituting ‘* four hundred *’ for ‘‘ two hundred and fifty,’’ and accordingly such workshop shall, for the purposes of the law relating to public health, be deemed to be so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the persons employed therein if the number of cubic feet of space in any room bears to the number of persons employed at one time in the room a proportion less than four hundred cubic feet to each person. | Chas. T.. Ritchie, One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. Home Office, Whitehall, 17th January, 1902. (b) Bakehouses. ORDER, DATED DECEMBER 30, 1903,* MODIFYING THE PROPORTION oF Cusic FEET oF SPACE TO BE PROVIDED IN CERTAIN BAKE- HOUSES. 1903. No. 1157. In pursuance of the power conferred on me by sub-section (2) of section 8 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,f I hereby direct that the proportion of cubic feet of space to each person employed prescribed in sub-section (1) of the said section shall be modified. (1) as regards UNDERGROUND BAKEHOUSES by substituting ** five hundred cubic feet of space to every person ”’ for ‘two hundred and fifty cubic feet of space to every person ’’; and (2) as regards BAKEHOUSES (other than such as are under- ground) WHERE WorK IS CARRIED ON AT NIGHT BY ARTIFICIAL LiGHT OTHER THAN Exectric Licutr by substituting in respect of the period between 9 in the evening and 6 in the succeeding morning ‘‘ four hundred cubic feet of space to every person ”’ for ‘* two hundred and fifty cubic feet of space to every person.”’ This Order shall come into force on the Ist day of January, 1904. A. Akers-Douglas, One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State. Home Office, Whitehall, 30th December, 1908.
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