Laundry Accounts

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Gee & Company, 1905 - 124 pages

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Page 114 - ... wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there.
Page 114 - A young person or a woman in a non-textile factory and a young person in a workshop shall not be employed continuously for more than five hours without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal.
Page 115 - All stoves for heating irons must be sufficiently separated from any ironing-room, and gas irons emitting any noxious fumes must not be used ; and (c) The floors must be kept in good condition and drained in such manner as will allow the water to flow off freely. A laundry in which these provisions are contravened shall be deemed to be a factory not kept in conformity with this Act.
Page 116 - ... directs, and be constantly kept so affixed in the prescribed form and in such position as to be easily read by the persons employed in the factory or workshop...
Page 115 - Nothing in this section shall apply to any laundry in which the only persons employed are — (a) inmates of any prison, reformatory, or industrial school, or other institution for the time being subject to inspection under any Act other than this Act ; or (b) inmates of an institution conducted in good faith for religious or charitable purposes : or (c) members of the same family dwelling there, or in which not more than two persons dwelling elsewhere are employed.
Page 117 - Every steam boiler used for generating steam in a steam boilers, factory or workshop or in any place to which any of the provisions of this Act apply must, whether separate or one of a range — (a) have attached to it a proper safety valve and a proper steam gauge and water gauge to show the pressure of steam and the height of water in the boiler ; and (b) be examined thoroughly by a competent person at least once in every fourteen months.
Page 116 - In the event of a contravention of this section in a factory or workshop, the occupier of the factory or workshop shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
Page 116 - A notice of the clock (if any) by which the period of employment and times for meals in the factory or workshop...
Page 116 - Every person shall, within one month after he begins to occupy a factory, serve on the inspector a written notice containing the name of the factory, the place where it is situated, the address to which he desires his letters to be addressed, the nature...
Page 115 - Overtime must not be worked on more than three days in any week or more than thirty days in any year ; and (d) The requirements of section sixty of this Act with respect to notices must be observed.

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