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FILE NAME State of the Art Literature SAL
DATE 1808
DOC SALO01
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for the Year 1808
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
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ANNUAL REPORT
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS -
For the Year
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Presented to both Mouses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty
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LADY INSPECTORS
10. The employer is
hand himself Workers employment employment The register moet
contain
cz by the agent in kamp a register ul the
17171 1
and health of N
) Christian and
2 Name of
surname age domicile date of first employment employment and
the perma responsible for the register
3 Name of the dotur in charge of the
nature of employeest employeest
6 Date and
workers
nature of any illness
ws
omatnmcneanp
5 AttM ee .
of the worker * Pate of
tawiszy 6
from nizom of the worker
wer Late and revolts of the monthly medical
examination 31.
Ccoames)e be The employreermoved their wn. teams them thoroughly oe
must make Rules to observed
tae
1 The workers must not bring food by workers on the following pointe -
Meals must be taken only ontside worbring kbring
or spirita mto the workrooms nor partake of
,
them
4 the workers indst
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3
workers
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wear overalls provided as dimeted
;
they have
workers may
enter
not enter washed
or
mouthm
overalla washed their handsOrantdakefamceesals or leave leave the works until afterafter
gow
4 Smoking
and rinsed out their
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rend taking amb Smoking
chewing are forbidden in
TO 8 comme ade
making 21. ^ cmpy of them
came As (mine setinned.
workers dinding
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Sons.
.
Hywcial Rules shall be ja soch a way as to vasily renci
be allized in
every workrooanmd in dressing and
= 22. la ave luffingement of
unreforms
these Special far as affected by the infringement until
RulesRules the Police Authority in -
clame
the place has been brought inte
empowered to clame the works a3
I have had to
conformity :
workers of the report to you more than once during the
hardship certain places
fur
they felt it to be that that they shouldyebear on receipt of complaints from
eg pulling rooms where they had formerly prohibited from taking meals in
legally to bo provided as
in Yorkshire and
substitute
This has been a long
formerly done so no other placo having
elsewhere grievanco although from time
standing
with
employers sortere who yielding to the
to time encouragement
Inspector's carrying on their works with
persuasion or perhaps to the comes from almay
the
women
can safely sit in
aggrieved the
workers
provide some shed
or
great diflicuity of
one besitates forn to
mealtime Too many cases remain
covered corner whero
probibition of
prom immediately the view that
unredressed however and
rooms
rooms in
a primi jure care exista for this
is n^'cessaryon account of
that in
slangerous substances
overy whero provision of washing appliances
substances handled the meantime the Inspector should have
It seems strange for
example ovacuation of rooms in the
no legal power
cutting
carrotting departments
to
require
during meals
the
or onnmeiling rooms of a metallic
provent irregular eating of food in those capsule workca rooms
of a Hatters Eurriers or the disc-
Much less is thero ang
during working hours
power to
Miss Squire reports as follown -
1 Pl proibito for main
Tu prohibit the taking of menis in
oofbligation to provide a suitable place in whiachfactory or workshop witbout laying ojwin ojwin the
conditions injurious injurious to health for another foui may be osteo in unfortunately merely
occupier legal
their work turned out of factories and
The bitter complaints of women whom merely i rointituto ona jes
and
rest
where
they
can
are
well
workshups founded
in
wet
or
wild
wrather
into
the
korarm streets
are
distant
from
In some neighbourhoods coffee shops
The cold and datap does us more harm than to get hit of found
137. discomfort alla them with men and ' we women don't and eating housem do not exist and where
ever the dust illi they
discomfort or sudering and
get a chanco Moreover it is a
they do the
a little bit of
one can quite understand the importance
question of expense
something brought from home
To many possibly the
follows obedienen to
majority of employers the
Order of
provision
of
a
meal
the remain others whom no
the
of State probibiting meals in mom in the factory naturally
still outsideration but that of a legal obligation on moTO certain procevne lias there
Miss Deano
however 180o8f who
wished
to
take
the
reported law
cases
during
old work women in the
tako
their
meals anywhere anywhere
in their but
own
hands
in
an
opposito
sonse
by
fur pulling trade
their employer seemed
in the dusty spot to which they wero
positively declining to
stand in wholesome
accustomed , and of them
drend Of all the dusty occupations
addition to china
health of the
scouring stand
which specially specially camo under observation in
their
1898 three in
medically to workers and breauso
ascertained
danger the
medically
attributed to sifting and
the employment of the enses of injury to bronchini tubes and lungs
carding silk
sufferers
inhaled in
opening and combing
These occmqsitions were ndiomten
considerable quantities sens
and hemp spinning Although the
according to the constitution of the
necessarily injurious in a printer or less
dust
applied
ventilation
in
some
persons in question it factories
was found
that
with
degree
innocuous In the cuse of
the occupations could be
properly
rendered from
any prociation
one
having
particulur asbestos
works
which
I
comparatively comparatively compartively
carried on with the least been taken the work sifting
visitent with Miss Denno far
mixing mochanical contrivuneo
possible attempt
to
subdue
the
mixing and dust
enrding
apponeed
to
bu
pos iblo One of the
dustiest
was possiblo possiblo to obvinto it and
hand labour boung boung just just whero
dustiest processes schome of applied
no
war carried on in collar
surt
of
ventilation
bome applied
Recommendations carrying
out
ventilation
the
to H.M.
Inspector Inspector in chario of
worn made for a
necessary works extended into 1899
the districts in question and tho
In the caso of the silk mills grently increased
workers of the excessive dust upjuared to be
qmuiaclriotsyenonfa sdi^l"khrIins which on the matter
santaining santaining
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Junty coca-
rations
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6. Security tem
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FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS: ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1898
published upThseilokpwionrimosn otfhutsherwecoerikveerds expressed to Miss Squire that they were inhaling and coughing
sono support and
medical observer in Italy over two
there
is strange
testimony
from a
keen
centuries ago to the havoc that can be wronght by th">~
eveurring tendency In his De Morbis
of a
manufacture to
make
its pro^ts out of cheapened materiais materiais
Wrote
Artificum
1670 translated into English 1703 Ramazzini
woe
to cakes the Wurst of all in the condition of thmwho comb the silk
in ordespr in it into thread for enverni usea
that remain after the making
sili
when the lags of the silkworms after being as being lens sharquable costly than the milk itwif Fue
cs + and wound apou re^lsin amail streped in hot water are opened and untangled by our women
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which
have parts of
threads the bailes n^silkworma
there
are
still
some grower
threads
or
tilamenta bzhind
they dry the sun and gits.out to
mizal with them ; and of there they maka a mrt of cakes which
in poor people that comb there mikes workmen to havn drama out into threnia with combs Now the
breathing and
Tow
of
them
live
are usually
to oki
troubled
with
a robement enmich
and
a great dificulty
of
to trugvily inming the midsterona
ago
particles
that
cilkworms
way
of business
The
virulenco
tlist gives rizo to this
whole famng in
that
cilkworms aremized with ab
Ju
this city physicians
imputing cians
put of
a
poui
estate
the
silk
trade
and
dril
mi mably
of
.
ue
the
emosumptions ee.
*
their ikkatrado they were continuali emjuoyed in -
.
s
nomally renommend ta thin sort of workmen a milk diet above all
;
effectually onerrets corrosive other that mime
the
and vloorous
things there being nothing
their alliation grows upon
scrimony . ,
must out for
But at the long run if they And
meevensjmas'si me vensjmas'si them_ther them_ther mevensjmas'si wands also ventsuction vi dien tii *
another trade for tis a sonini prit cliac's
.
:
following Would that our workers in dangerons industries could avoid the
this me ommendation
ovils that heset them by
various the evil places +
Misa Denno reports on the abundant evidence she has had of tho oril effects of dust
-
In the majority of care
is very insidious and the general
respiratory organe are to the lay minil en similar to these
symptoms produced by dust on the
may to trace the connection
colds
The incemang more threws the irriftiatrimoinncoefd
his other causes that
it is not always
on the chest and ' hoarte vnice and morning congh from
the bronchiai prawegen liis frequent
suffer are all symptoms which to casual observers
which giris empiered in dusty processes
cues of phthisis medically cortiled to be
might be easily accounted for in other warn Une or two mui -
came under my notice have
seriously nexravatmi if nos induced by work in roje factories which
emphasized in my mind the grave possibilities arising from
*
Such instances can selila,,be
work in theen
fenced except health and sinks
fully
with infinite labour and patience
away out of right in no sudden or sansational manuor so
The worker falis into
that attention
to the ultimate source of the
is selitom astenoted
rouble The evil effects of asbestow dust have also
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;
mizerni dust which was made
attmetesi my attention a mierowopia examination of thin
by Of the particles and where
HLM Molteni Inspectnt rarealed the sharp gines jnegedi nature
they allowed to rim anii v quantity the affects have been found
remain suspended in the air of a roum ia
*
to be injurious na might have been expected expected
nny
in scouring so in still greater degree in other dusty trades the worker
very long time apparently unafloctobdefore the symptoms of the oril become
may onntinne for
*
markou -
It is often impossible to bring positive proof of definita
atmosphere for except in extrme curs the
injury mildly attributable to working in a dinery
cortainty
of
the
danger
can
be
clearly
symptoms
demonstrated
are similar for
to
thown
attributable
other
collars
but the
when the evil renches much genan
as
instabon by examination of the dust partiules I
ma
schuring or flax preparing there ipsrijavetimme nue to be expable of ray and tragie prosi na in the man of chius
who are to be found in
alwayna certain
perquirtion
of
"
olil
workers
thse urvivors of their
their unliealthy cullingevery uunhealthy nhealthy industry and who like the Ciranaina puison appene to thirnivaeteosn
* In low
the unhealthy conditions only convincing proof of sctual injury viz milable
comparativo statistics of mortality or of standards is
the one rate with the time and
practically unattainable in
of any given
any opportunity as present at our disposal
factory at
Although in accordance with regulations questions relating to fencing of
machinery aro reforred by H.M. Women Inspectors
to
11.M.
Inspectors
in
charge
dangerous
of
99 cases of dangerous machinery haring heen so referred in 1898 considorable
districts
na hitherto
their
been given to various illustrations of the need
of
increasing security
attention has
for
employment Often valuable suggestions can be gathered from study of the workers at
accidents which ocenpiers are bound to keep in workshops as woll na factories und register of
gross enses of neglect to keep these useful records for example in nerated water works
soine
laundries we mado tho subject of procevlines
and
needforsiy In one case with a view to obtaining penal compensation for a
old
injured
in
laundry
I
proceeded against
the occupiers
only
poor for failure
woman
nedforsiy
the necidont but for failuro to pluco such a barrier as would from the
to register and report
which was a neting collar ironer near the havo
position of the muchino-
enroless minnagement had neglected not only his simp o
provonted tho accident but had
Groesly
bo linag for outdoor smarments
preenition
allowed porn to
the necidontal setting in motionimmediately behind the moving part of the machine was
dinner hour for her shawl
of the nichine when the old woman had got behind it at tho
following her occupation to go home that enused the injury which disabled her for further
My attention has been culled by repented reports from the
workers being pressed to remain
Inspectors to enses of injured
would not ba sovera if it was
at work during the first three days after an injury whien
carefully attended to consequences na following a
Miss Squiro experiaily reported serious
sho saw had lost a
compamtively alight accident at a tin entting world Ona
finger by an operation some time after the
giri
originat injury and it was the opinion of
enred for she would not hilvo suffered
the
surgeon
that if
accident which canned the the girl hail rested and been
serious to enenor who has
a loss which many nro apt to forget is far moro
prenres both in metallte
only her hands to depend upon than to others Hand
of these minor
capando works and in making works aro responsibly for
sccidents which are often of gravo consequence
many
consequence struck by the frequency of muined and
to tho sufferer I was much
misshapen foreningers in
less visita Cem ren
my
1a