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SECTION 54,THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937
Underground Bakehouses
Proceedings were instituted under Section 54, Factories Act,
1937 in regard to an underground bakehouse which had become
established without a certificate of suitability., The bakehouse
concerned was originally an underground restaurant kitchen but
the nature of the business gradually changed to that of baking
cakes and pastries.
The summons was eventually adjourned sine die on the
receipt of an undertaking by the proprietor to re-arrange his
premises by August, 1954.
SWIMMING BATHS
Samples of water were regularly taken for chemical
examination and bacteriological analysis from the Hampstead
Swimming Baths. These proved to be satisfactory.
PET ANIMALS ACT. 1951
The administration of this Act is conducted by the Public
Health Department; the Sanitary Inspectors and I have been
authorised to act as Inspection Officers. Although this is a
comparatively modest additional burden, there are some somewhat
complex practical difficulties arising in connection with the
licensing and inspection of pet shops, which require careful
investigation.
Five licences were issued during the year.
HEATING APPLIANCES (FIREGUARDS) ACT, 1952
This Act received the Royal Assent on 1st August, 1952, and
came into force on 1st October, 1953.
The Act prohibits the sale or letting of unguarded domestic
electric fires, gas fires or oil heaters, empowers authorised
officers of local authorities to inspect and list appliances
kept on any premises for sale or letting and imposes penalties
for contraventions. This new legislation has been referred to
the Public Health Department for enforcement.
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION
As a result of discussion between the London and Home Counties
Smoke Abatement Society, the Department of Industrial and
Scientific Research, and the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint
Committee, it was decided that in order to make a useful study of
pollution in the metropolitan area an additional 56 stations for
the measuring, recording etc. of atmospheric pollution were needed.