The Hampstead Heath Act, 1871, 34 & 35 Vict. c. lxxvii. ,, Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1871 (Blackheath), 34 & 35 "Metropolitan Board of Works Act, 1874 (Finsbury Park), 37 & 38 ཝ 39 دو ་་ 19 Vict. c. xcvii. (Various Powers) Act, 1875 (Tooting Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1877, 40 & 41 Vict. c. 35. Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1877 (Clapham Common Metropolitan Commons Act, 1878, 41 & 42 Vict. c. 71. Plumstead Common Act, 1878 (Plumstead Common and Shoulder of Wormwood Scrubs Act, 1879, 42 & 43 Vict. c. clx. Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1881 (Brook Green, Eel Metropolitan Board of Works (Hackney Commons) Act, 1881, 44 & 45 ,, Metropolitan Open Spaces Act, 1881, 44 & 45 Vict. c. 34. 36 39 Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1882 (Peckham Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act, 1884 (Streatham Common), Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1884 (Plumstead Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1886 (Little ,, Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Powers) Act, 1887 (Wandsworth Common, Bostal Heath, Brook Green, Ravenscourt Park, Penge Recreation Ground and W.C.'s in Parks, &c.), 50 & 51 Vict. c. cvi. Open Spaces Act, 1887, 50 & 51 Vict. c. 32. London Parks and Works Act, 1887 (Victoria Park, Battersea Park, Clissold Park (Stoke Newington) Act, 1887, 50 & 51 Vict. c. cxxxvii. Hampstead Heath Enlargement Act, 1888, 51 & 52 Vict. c. cli. X The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Whitechapel and Limehouse Scheme. Great Wild Street, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, Bowman's Buildings, Marylebone, Little Coram Street, St. Giles, &c., Whitechapel and Limehouse (Modifica- The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings The Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings An Act to amend the Artizans' and Amendment Act, 1879. High Street, Islington (Modification), The Artizans' Dwellings Act. Tench Street, St. George-in-the-East, Brook Street, Limehouse, Scheme. Windmill Row, New Cut, Lambeth, Trafalgar Road, Greenwich, Scheme. Tabard Street, Newington, Scheme. The Housing of the Working Classes Metropolitan Board of Works (Various Cable Street, Shadwell, Scheme. The Metropolis (Whitechapel and Lime- CHAPTER 62. An Act to make further provision for the regulation of [30th August 1889.] E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Cotton Cloth Factories Act, Short title. 1889. ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of March Commenceone thousand eight hundred and ninety, which day is in this Act referred to as the commencement of this Act. 3. This Act shall be construed as one with the Factory and Construction. Workshop Act, 1878. 4. In this Act The expression "cotton cloth factory" shall mean any room, shed, or workshop, or any part thereof, in which the weaving of cotton cloth is carried on. Expressions referring to the artificial raising of temperature or production of humidity shall include the raising of temperature or production of humidity by any artificial means whatsoever except by gas when used for lighting purposes only. 41 & 42 Vict. of the 5.-(1.) The amount of moisture in the atmosphere of a cotton Temperature and humidity cloth factory shall not at any time be in excess of such amount as is represented by the number of grains of moisture per cubic foot atmosphere. of air shown in column I. of the table in Schedule A. to this Act opposite to such figure in column II. as represents the temperature existing in such cotton cloth factory at such time. Provided that in a cotton cloth factory the temperature shall not at any time be artificially raised above seventy degrees, except in so far as may be necessary in the process of giving humidity to the atmosphere and according to the table in Schedule A. of this Act. (2.) The fact that one of the wet bulb thermometers in such factory gives a higher reading than the figure shown in column III. of Schedule A. to this Act opposite to such figure in column II. as represents the temperature existing in such factory, shall be evidence that the amount of moisture in the atmosphere exceeds the limit in the last preceding sub-section prescribed. 6. One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State may from Power to alter time to time by order repeal or vary the table in Schedule A. of table of this Act, and substitute any new or amended table therefor: Pro- humidity. vided always, that such varied or substituted table shall be laid in a complete form before both Houses of Parliament if Parliament be sitting, or if not, then within three weeks after the beginning of the next ensuing session of Parliament; and if such table shall be Thermometers to be em ployed. Notice of disapproved by either House of Parliament within forty days after the same shall have been so laid before Parliament, such table shall be void and of no effect: Provided also, that no such table shall come into force or operation until the same shall have been laid before Parliament for forty days; but after the expiration of such forty days, if the table has not been disapproved of as aforesaid, the Secretary of State shall cause a copy thereof to be published in the "London Gazette," and to be given to every occupier of a cotton cloth factory who, in pursuance of this Act, has given notice of humidity of the atmosphere being artificially produced in such factory, and after the expiration of fourteen days from the first publication thereof in the "London Gazette," the varied or substituted table shall be deemed to be the table in Schedule A. of this Act. 7. For the purpose of recording the humidity of the atmosphere and the temperature in a cotton cloth factory, there shall be provided, maintained, and kept in correct working order in every such factory two sets of standardised wet and dry bulb thermometers. The following regulations shall be observed with reference to the (ii.) The occupier or manager or person for the time being in (iv.) There shall be kept hanging up in a frame, and properly (v.) Each form shall be primâ facie evidence of the humidity of the atmosphere and temperature in the factory in which such form was hung up. 8. The occupier of any cotton cloth factory in which humidity artificial pro- of the atmosphere is artificially produced shall give notice thereof humidity to be in writing to the chief inspector of factories. duction of The notice shall be given in the case of a factory in which humidity is so produced at the commencement of this Act within one week after the commencement of this Act, and in the case of any other factory at or before the time at which the artificial production of humidity is commenced in the factory. 9. In every factory in respect of which such notice has been Admission of given, arrangements shall be made and maintained to the satisfac- fresh air. tion of the inspector of factories for the district for admitting in every hour during which work is carried on not less than six hundred cubic feet of fresh air for each person employed therein; and the arrangements for such ventilation shall be kept in operation subject, as far as possible, to the control of the persons employed therein. tories. 10. Every factory in respect of which such notice has been given Inspectors to shall be visited by an inspector of factories once at least in every visit the facthree months. The inspector shall examine into the temperature, humidity of the atmosphere, ventilation, and quantity of fresh air in the factory, and shall report to the chief inspector of factories in accordance with the form printed in Schedule C. of this Act. artificial 11. If at any time the occupier of any factory in respect of Notice of which notice has been given in conformity with the eighth section cessation of of this Act shall cease to produce humidity by artificial means, he production of may give notice in writing of such cessation, and from the date of humidity. such notice, and so long as humidity is not artificially produced in the factory, the provisions of this Act with respect to factories in which humidity of the atmosphere is artificially produced shall not apply to such factory. inhalation of 12. Where an inspector considers that dust is generated, and Provisions for such dust is inhaled by the workers to an injurious extent, and it preventing appears to such inspector that such inhalation could be prevented dust. by the use of mechanical or other means, the following provisions shall apply: (1.) The inspector shall serve on the occupier of the factory a notice requiring him to adopt such mechanical or other means as the said inspector requires to prevent the inhalation of such dust: (2.) The occupier, within seven days after the receipt of the notice, may serve on the inspector a requisition to refer the matter to arbitration; and thereupon the matter shall be referred to arbitration, and two skilled arbitrators shall be appointed, the one by the inspector and the other by the occupier; and the provisions of the Companies Clauses Con- 8 & 9 Vict. solidation Act, 1845, with respect to the settlement of disputes c. 16. by arbitration shall, subject to the express provisions of this section, apply to the said arbitration, and the arbitrators or their umpire shall give the decision within twenty-one days after the last of the arbitrators, or, in the case of the umpire, after the umpire is appointed, or within such further time as the occupier and inspector, by writing, allow; and if the |