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Hayes and Harlington 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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unauthorised sites of varying degrees of unfitness, and including
some of the most undesirable features, from the sanitary and public
health point of view, to be found in the whole district. The Council's
scheme for a municipal caravan site continues on its faltering
career, but still exists only on paper. A modified scheme has been
agreed and tenders obtained but at the end of the year a reply was
awaited from the Ministry to the Council's application for loan
sanction.
New Houses.
During the year 1955 the following dwellings were completed
by the Council and private developers :
Council
Houses 78
Old Person's dwellings 4
Flats 113
Maisonettes 10
Private Development:
Dwellings. 199
PART IV. FACTORIES AND SHOPS.
Factories Act, 1937.
There are one hundred and fifty 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.
| Number on Register | Number of | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premises | Inspections | Written Notices | Occupiers Prosecuted | |
| Factories with mechanical power | 159 | 340 | 11 | |
| Factories without mechanical power | 11 | — | — | |
| Other premises under the Act (including work of building and engineering construction, but not including outworkers' premises). | 7 | 28 | — | — |
| Total | 170 | 379 | 11 | — |