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hairdresser or barber on any premises in a borough unless he and
those premises are registered by the borough council. Exceptions are
for premises which are visited only by appointment with a customer,
and for a person who in effect is doing hair dressing on his own
premises part time and who does not employ any other person to assist
him. Registration in the first place is automatic on application, and a
register is kept for the purpose.
By the end of the year 111 persons had been registered.
Byelaws governing the conduct of these establishments, designed
to ensure cleanliness of the person, equipment and premises, came
into force on December 1. The standard of hygiene in those visited
up to the end of the year was good.
Outworkers
Under section 110 of the Factories Act, 1937 the occupier of every
factory and every contractor employed by him must keep lists showing
the names and addresses of all outworkers directly employed by him and
of the places where they are employed, and must send to the district
council in February and in August of each year, copies of those lists
showing all outworkers so employed by him during the preceding six
months. Section 111 of the same Act empowers the district council by
notice in writing to the occupier of a factory or to any contractor employed
by him to prohibit the employment of any persons as home workers in
premises which the council regard as injurious or dangerous to health.
The Home Work Order, 1911, specified the kinds of work to which
these two sections apply. The types of work consist mainly of wearing
apparel and various textiles, the making of paper bags, boxes, brushes,
baskets, artificial flowers, metal fittings, etc.
Outworkers were visited periodically by the district sanitary
inspectors.
The following is a list of trades concerned, extracted from the
August, 1955 lists received:—
Trade outworkers
employed
Wearing apparel 147
Curtains 9
Christmas crackers 1
Boxmaking 9
Carding, etc., of buttons 1
Stuffed toys 1
Paper bags 1
Lampshades 12
Textile weaving 2
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