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Laundry. By s. 1 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c.39), there are included in the list of non-textile factories and workshops within the meaning of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7,c. 22):-

(29) Laundries carried on by way of trade or for the purpose of gain, or carried on as ancillary to another business or incidentally to be purposes of any public institution.

The Act further controls the period of employment of women in laundries (s. 2) and also contains other regulations (ss. 3 and 4) for their proper management.

Sending infected articles which have not been properly disinfected or without proper notice to laundries, private or public, is prohibited by Public Health Act,1936, s. 152.