Lessons on sanitation; a handbook for students, arranged on the principle of question and answer, forming a complete course of study on the subject by Harrison John (John W.)

Author:Harrison, John (John W.)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sanitation, Sanitary engineering, Public health
Publisher: London, C. Griffin and Company, limited
Published: 1906-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

W ^^SUfRAL RESERVe

vaccinated (in case of small-pox). Date of disinfection. No. of rooms cleansed. No. of rooms fumigated. No. of articles disinfected. Name of medical practitioner reporting the case. Remarks.

Note. —The above are simply headings to the columns in the register.

23 Q.—What powers have Urban Authorities with respect to (a) hospital accommodation; (6) formation of a joint hospital ? A. —(a) Section 131 of the Public Health Act, 1875,gives power to Local Authorities to provide district hospitals or temporary place for the reception of sick, for which purpose they may themselves build such hospitals, enter into an agreement with any person for the use of hospital, or contract for a hospital building.

(h) The same section provides for two or more local authorities combining in providing a joint or common hospital.

21 Q.—Do the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, and of the Infectious Diseases Acts apply to ships ? A, —Yes; section 110 of the Public Health Act, 1875, provides that: For the purpose of this Act any vessel (not belonging to H.M. Government) lying in waters within a sanitary district shall be deemed to be a house, and its master the occupier. When the ship is in water which is not within the district of any Sanitary Authority, it shall be deemed to be in that of the nearest. This section brings ships under the scope of the Public Health Act, 1875, for nuisances only ; but the Public Health (Ships) Act of 1875 extended its scope to include also sections 120, 121, 124, 125, 126, 128, 131, 132, and 133, thus including infectious diseases and hospitals. The Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889, and the Infectious Diseases Prevention Act, 1890, apply only after adoption in any district; when adopted, they apply to ships the same as to houses.

LESSON X

FACTORY AND WORKSHOPS ACT, HOTJSINa THE WORKING OliASSES ACT. AND THE ^ SHOP HOUBS ACT

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1 Q.—Defints broadly the difl'erence between a factoiy and a workshop. *L—The primaiy distinction between them appears to be

I that in a factory steam or some other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing processesj and in workshops manual labour only i.s used. Id Part I of Schedule VJ, of the Factory and Workshops Act, HJOl, many other places are given as factories whether mechanical power is used or not, as print works, bleaching and dyeing works, eartbenw^are works, lucifer match works, percussion-cap works, cartridge works, paper-staining Avorks,

■ fnstian-cutting works, blast furnaces, copper mills, iron mills, foundries^ metal and india-rubber works, paper mills, glass works, tobacco factories, letterpress printing works, bookbinding works, flax scutch mills and electrical stations.

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Q,^—What powers have Sanitary Authorities in regard to (a) factories, (b) ^vorkshops ?

A, —(ft) Factories are under tiie factory inspectors, but in distiicts where Part ?t of the Public Health Amendment Act, 18U0, is in force, every building used as a workshop or manufactory, or where persons are employed, or intended to be employed, in any trade or business, must be provided with fiutficient and suitable accommodation in the way of sanitary conveniences (section 2'2).

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