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•Including defects found, but not remedied, in 1954.
Outworkers.
Part VIII of the Factories Act requires the occupier of a
factory who employs persons to carry out certain classes of work
in their own homes to supply a list of such persons to the District
Council every six months. Sixty-three notifications have been
received and seventy-five inspections made ; in every instance the
work was found to be carried out under suitable conditions.
Shops Act.
All parts of the Shops Act are administered, including hours of
closing, assistants' half-holiday, Sunday trading, comfort and
welfare of assistants, etc. The Sanitary Inspectors made 2,652
visits for this purpose during the year, including 1,420 which were
made outside normal office hours, i.e. in the evenings and on
Sundays.
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