walls of the room is forbidden, any person who spits A.D. 1926. on the floor or walls of the room shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings. trades. 5 48.-(1) Where in any room in a factory lead, Meals in arsenic or other poisonous substance is so used as to certain give rise to dust or fumes, or any highly silicious dust is dangerous given off in connexion with any process carried on, a person shall not be permitted to take a meal or to remain 10 during the times allowed to him for meals in that room, and a suitable messroom shall be provided or other suitable provision made for enabling the persons employed in that room to take their meals elsewhere in the factory. (2) Where it appears to the Secretary of State that, 15 by reason of the nature of any process carried on in any class or description of factories or parts thereof to which the foregoing provisions of this section do not apply, the taking of meals therein is injurious to health or otherwise undesirable, he may, if he thinks fit, by special order 20 extend those provisions to such factories or parts of factories. 49.-(1) No person shall use white phosphorus in Prohibition the manufacture of matches. of use of white phos. manufacture (2) For the purposes of this Part of this Act the phorus in means the substance of matches. 25 expression "white phosphorus 30 usually known as white or yellow phosphorus. 50.-(1) Where in any part of a factory (a) the process of melting, or blowing glass; or Prohibition of employment of female young (b) the process of annealing glass other than plate persons in or sheet glass; or (c) the evaporating of brine or finishing of salt, is carried on, a female young person shall not be employed in that part of the factory. (2) The Secretary of State may by special order extend 35 this section to any process in which, on account of the special circumstances, it appears to him undesirable that female young persons should be employed. certain pro cesses. A.D. 1926. Prohibition of employment of 51.-(1) A woman or young person shall not be employed to lift, carry or move any weight so heavy as to be likely to cause injury to such woman or young person. (2) The Secretary of State may make special orders women and prescribing the maximum weights which may be lifted, 5 carried or moved by women or young persons of any age in any class or description of factories, or when engaged in any process. young persons in lifting excessive weights. Prohibition of employment of women and 52. A woman or young person shall not be employed in any of the following operations : (a) work at a furnace where the reduction or treatment of zinc or lead ores is carried on: (b) the manipulation, treatment, or reduction of ashes containing lead, the desilverising of lead, or the melting of scrap lead or zinc: (c) the manufacture of solder or alloys containing more than ten per cent. of lead: (d) the manufacture of any oxide, carbonate, sulphate, chromate, acetate, nitrate, or silicate of lead: (e) mixing or pasting in connexion with the manufacture or repair of electric accumulators: (f) the cleaning of workrooms where any of the processes aforesaid are carried on. 10 15 20 53.-(1) A woman or young person shall not be 25 employed in any process involving the use of lead compounds if the process is such that dust or fume from a lead compound is produced therein, or the persons employed therein are liable to be splashed with any lead compound in the course of their employment, unless the 30 following regulations are complied with as respects all women and young persons employed : (a) where dust or fume from a lead compound is 5 10 15 (b) the persons employed must undergo the pre- A.D. 1926. intervals, and the prescribed record must be (c) No food, drink, or tobacco shall be brought into (e) Such suitable cloak-room, mess-room, and washing (2) It shall not be lawful to employ in any process involving the use of lead compounds any woman or young 20 person who has been suspended after medical examination from employment in any such process on the ground that continuance therein would involve special danger to health. (3) The method of ascertaining whether any com25 pound or mixture is a lead compound within the meaning of this section shall be such as may be prescribed. (4) In this section "prescribed " means prescribed by an order made under this section, and the expression "lead compound" means any soluble compound of lead which 30 is declared by order of the Secretary of State to be a lead compound for the purposes of this section, and includes a mixture containing any such compound, but does not include an alloy containing lead. (5) The provisions of subsections (3) (a), (4), and (5) 35 of section forty-four of this Act as to welfare orders shall apply with respect to orders made under this section as they apply with respect to orders made under that section. 54.-(1) Subject to such exceptions as may be Prohibition allowed by special order made by the Secretary of State, of night work 40 no person shall be employed in the manufacture of bread houses. or flour confectionery, or in any other process ordinarily carried on in a bakehouse, between the hours of eleven in the evening and five in the morning. A.D. 1926. Threading of shuttles. Metal-grind (2) The Secretary of State may, on the application of any body representative of the employers or workers in the baking industry in any district, by special order, prohibit any person who carries on within the district the manufacture of bread or flour confectionery, or 5 any such process as aforesaid, whether he does or does not employ any other persons in his business, from being himself engaged in the manufacture or process between the hours of eleven in the evening and five in the morning. (3) This section shall come into operation on the 10 first day of January, nineteen hundred and twentyeight: Provided that if a joint application is made to the Secretary of State by any body or bodies representative of the employers and of the workers in the industry in 15 any district, the Secretary of State may by special order direct that this section shall come into operation in that district at such earlier date as may be fixed by the order. 55. After five years from the commencement of this Act, there shall not be used in any factory in which is 20 carried on the weaving of cotton cloth any shuttle which is capable of being readily threaded by suction of the mouth, except in the case of special classes of cloth as may be excepted from the operation of this section by order of the Secretary of State. 56. Where the grinding of metal implements is ing factories. carried on in a tenement factory, the following provisions shall apply: - (1) Where drums are used hand rails must be fixed 25 30 (3) In every room constructed or converted for use 35 as a grinding room after the passing of this Act, there shall be provided (a) a minimum distance of four feet between any two grindstones, or three feet if the stones are less than two feet in diameter; 40 and (b) a clear space of not less than six feet A.D. 1926. between any stone and any wall towards which it runs. These requirements shall not apply to (4) Except in pursuance of a special exemption (a) in line with any other grindstone; or (b) in front of and in the direction of any fireplace; and it shall be deemed to be so run if the distance between either edge of the stone and a parallel line passing through the centre of the fire is less than three feet; or (c) so that any part of the stone is within. six feet of a fire. 57.--(1) In every humid factory in which regula- Humid tions made under this Part of this Act, with respect to factories. humidity, are not for the time being in force, the following provisions shall apply: (a) There shall be no artificial humidification in any (b) The humidity of the atmosphere shall not at |