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This duty also relates to tuberculosis, food poisoning and suspected
food poisoning.
9. Storage of Petroleum. All premises where petroleum is stored
must be licensed annually and the prescribed fee must be paid to the
Local Authority. The construction or alteration of installations is
strictly supervised.
10. Massage and Special Treatment Premises. Middlesex County
Council Act, 1944, Part XII.
All premises used for massage or special treatment as defined in the
Act are licensed annually unless exemption from licensing is granted
by this Local Authority. Record of all licences issued and exemptions.
11. Rag Flock and other Filling Materials. Rag Flock and Other
Filling Materials Act, 1951, Sec. 2(1).
All premises where filling materials of specified types are used in
manufacturing articles of upholstery must be registered by the Local
Authority. The registration fee is £ 1. The Act also provides for licensing
of premises where rag flock is manufactured or stored but no licences
have been issued in Hornsey.
12. Shops. Shops Act, 1950.
All shops are inspected regularly to enforce the Act and the various
closing orders in force in the Borough.
13. Pet Shops. Pet Animals Act, 1951, Sec. 1(1).
Pet shops are licensed annually (fee 10s.) and the premises regularly
inspected.
14. Factories. Factories Act, 1937, Sec. 8(3).
Changes are notified by H.M. Inspector of Factories to the Medical
Officer of Health or by the Medical Officer of Health to H.M. Inspector
of Factories so that the registers are kept as up-to-date as
possible.
15. Outworkers. Factories Act, 1937, Sec. 110(1) (c).
Outworkers is the term applied to people who carry out in their own
homes work on behalf of factories or shops.
All persons employing outworkers must keep a register in the prescribed
form.
The employer notifies the Medical Officer of Health in February
and August of each year of all outworkers employed during the preceeding
6 months. Outworkers' premises are visited to ensure that
satisfactory standards are maintained.
16. Surface Water Drainage Inspections—Moselle and Mutton Brook.
Public Health Act, 1936, Sec. 39.
House drains in the catchment areas of the two surface water drainage
systems, "The Moselle" and "The Mutton Brook", are inspected
as pollution of both these systems has occurred from soil drains and
sinks which were wrongly connected and from defects in house drainage.
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