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FACTORIES ACT, 1961
At the request of the Ministry of Health the tables showing the work carried out in the administration
of the health provisions of the Factories Acts, are given in the prescribed form as an annex to the
report.
Theoccupiersof factories are required to supply the Local Authcrity twice yearly with lists of the
names and addresses of persons employed by them as outworkers, i.e, carrying out work in their own homes.
The lists are submitted in February and August. The homes are then inspected by the Public Health Inspectors
to ensure that conditions there are suitable.
Twenty-six lists were received from employers in the Borough giving details of 153 outworkers.
Of these 98 did not reside in the Borough and the appropriate details were forwarded to the Medical Officers
of Health of the districts concerned.
In turn, notifications were received from other local authorities of 108 outworkers residing in Hendon
but employed in factories elsewhere.
The homes of all the outworkers were inspected but in one instance only were conditions unsatis
factory, the room in which the work was carried out requiring cleansing and redecoration. Appropriate
action was taken.
In factories where no mechanical power is used in the process involved, the Local Authority is
responsible for seeing that proper cleanliness is maintained, that there is no overcrowding of employees,
that ventilation is adequate, that a reasonable temperature is maintained, (one or more thermometers has
to be provided in each room), that floors are properly drained if any wet proce s is carried on and that
suitable & sufficient sanitary conveniences are maintained. There were sixteen such factories in the Borough
at the end of the year. At four of these, matters relating to redecoration, absence of thermometers and
failure to display notices were found to require attention. All were satisfactorily dealt with,
At factories where mechanical power is used in the processes involved, the Local Authority is only
responsible for seeing that suitable and sufficient sanitary conveniences are maintained. At 24 of the factories
inspected works were found to be necessary. Appropriate notices were served and the defects remedied
or in hand at the end of the year.
PREMISES LICENSED FOR PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
In accordance with the usual annual procedure, inspections were made at the request of the Middlesex
County Council of the sanitary conveniences, kitchens, etc., at hotels, Church halls, cinemas,
restaurants, etc., licensed for public entertainment.
Forty-five premises were inspected. At thirty-three premises conditions were found to be satisfactorv.
At the other twelve the following matters were found requiring attention:—
Sanitary Conveniences
Repairs 15
Cleansing 4
Redecoration 15
Kitchens
Repair or renewal of equipment 3
Cleansing 2
Other Rooms, Passages, etc.
Repairs 1
Cleansing 1
Redecoration 1
All these matters were satisfactorily dealt with.
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