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4. The inspector may, if he sees fit, prolong the employment of children, girls, and women [to twelve hours per day], provid- ing the working day does not begin before 6 A. m., nor continue after 9 p. m., under the following circumstances :
(rt) When any accident, which prevents the working of any industrial establishment, happens to the motive power or machinery.
(^) When, from any occurrence beyond the control of the employer, the machinery, or any part of the machinery, of any industrial establishment cannot be properly worked.
(c) When any stoppage occurs from any cause whatsoever.
5. Employers must keep a register showing the period of each day and week that children, boys, girls, and women are employed, and the hour at which they commenced and finished working.
The text of the foregoing may be found in 57 Vict., chap. 30, sees. 3025, 3026, and 3027.
III. SANITARY REGULATIONS.
These are not enactments made especially for women, but for all employes, regardless of age or sex. However, it seems fitting to cite them here to show that the health of the women operatives is not neglected.
1. Industrial establishments must be built and kept in such manner as to secure the safety of all employed in them.
2. They must be {a) kept in the cleanest possible manner; (^) sufficiently lighted; {c') have a sufficient quantity of air for the number of persons employed ; and (^) provided with effect- ive means for expelling the dust produced during the course of work, and also the gases and vapors which escape and the refuse which results from it. (57 Vict., chap. 30, sec. 3021.)
3. The lieutenant-governor in council may classify as dan- gerous, unhealthy, or incommodious such establishments as he considers dangerous to the health of the operators, especially children, young girls, and women. (Same as above, sec. 3053.)
The following sanitary measures were approved by the gov- ernor in 1895 :
(<?) All apartments must be well aired.
