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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

Hayes and Harlington 1954

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]

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PART IV. FACTORIES AND SHOPS.
Factories Act, 1937.
There are one hundred and forty-nine factories with mechanical
power and four factories without mechanical power on the Register,
with a range of products including :
Aircraft, building materials, caravans, carbon products,
cheese, chocolate, cocoa, coffee extracts, electrical transformers,
furniture, lubricating oil, optical lenses, potato crisps, pianos,
radio, radar, television, gramophone records and gramophones,
rubber, tarmacadam, and wood block floors.

Table: Inspection of Factories.

Inspection of Factories.

PremisesNumber on RegisterNumber of
InspectionsWritten NoticesOccupiers Prosecuted
Factories with mechanical power14946423-
Factories without mechanical power416——
Other premises under the Act (including work of building and engineering construction but not including outworkers' premises)12384-
Total16551827-
Defects Found.
ParticularsNumber of Defects
FoundRemedied*
Sanitary accommodation (Section 7) :
Insufficient35
Unsuitable or defective4962
Not separate for sexes--
Other offences—2
Total5269
*Including defects found, but not remedied, in 1953.