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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 5
Factories
The provisions of the Factories Acts, 1937 and 1948 are administered by
H.M. Inspector of Factories of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, in
conjunction with the local sanitary authority. Close co-operation is maintained
between the two, and defaults found in the course of visits to factories are
notified between one and the other according to the body responsible for remedial
measures
Particulars of inspections and other work carried out by the Factory
Inspectors during 1957 are given in the following table:-
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Number of visits -
| Factories (with mechanical power) | 2,613 | ||
| Factories (without mechanical power) | 1,658 | ||
| Bakehouses | 437 | ||
| Restaurants | 1,301 | ||
| Outworkers premises | 1,528 | ||
| Rag Flock Act | 18 | ||
| Scabies and vermin cases | 144 | ||
| Smoke observations | 291 | ||
| Water sampling | 33 | ||
| Public Health Annexe | 179 | ||
| Other visits | 85 | ||
| Hairdressers | 52 | ||
| Smoke control area | 183 | ||
| Total | 8,522 | ||
| Statutes under which served | |||
| Intimation Notices served relating to | Factories Act, 1937 | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 | Food and Drugs Act, 1955 |
| Factories (with mechanical power) | 216 | - | - |
| Factories (without mechanical ppwer) | 35 | - | - |
| Bakehouses | - | - | 25 |
| Restaurants and canteens | - | - | 129 |
| Totals | 251 | - | 154 |
| Statutory notices served | 15 | - | 11 |