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(j) Licensing, inspection and supervision of seamen's lodging houses.
(k) Registration, licensing, inspection and regulation of common lodging houses.
(i) Licensing of dairymen to use premises as cow-houses.
(m) Licensing and inspection of slaughter-houses and knackers' yards.
(n) Offensive trades.
(o) Rag and bone dealers.
(p) Humane slaughtering of animals and poultry.
{q) Demolition of buildings.
(r) Ice cream vendors and premises.
(s) Duties concerned with infant life protection under Part XIII. of the Public
Health (Loudon) Act, 1936.
(t) Smoke abatement.
(u) Fish curers and vendors of fried fish.
(v) Dairies, cowsheds and inilkshops.
(w) Use of underground rooms for habitation.
(x) Protection of food.
B.—Public Health Legislation either enacted or coming into force during 1937 :—
Factories Act, 1037. (Comes into force 1st July, 1938.)
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1937. Sections 63, 65, 66, 67, 68.
Physical Training and Recreation Act, 1937.
Hydrogen Cyanide (Fumigation) Act, 1937.
A summary of the most important provisions contained in this new leglation is set out
below :—
The Factories Act, 1937.
The New Factories Act which will come into force on the 1st July, 1938, is designed
to secure safe and healthy working conditions in manufacturing and certain other operations.
It is a consolidating and amending measure, and will replace the Factory and Workshop Act
of 1901 and various later Acts. It follows broadly the lines of the Act of 1901, but contains
many new provisions based on modern practice and also embodies a large number of changes,
suggested by experience, on points of detail. One of its most important features is that it
greatly reduces the permissable working hours laid down in previous Factory Acts both for
women and young persons. It also regulates for the first time the working hours of some
additional classes of employees under 18 connected with factories, such as errand boys and
ran boys.
L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1937.
Accommodation for Storage and Cooking of Food.
Section 65 enacts that the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 184 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936, is repealed, and that the other provisions of that section shall extend and
apply to every tenement house within the county whether the tenement house was or was not
used or occupied as such before the beginning of August, 1908, or the 16th August, 1909,
as the case may be. Under this proviso certain tenement houses had been exempt. The
effect now is to extend to every tenement house within the county the provisions with regard
to the accommodation for storage and cooking of food in tenement houses, so that if at any
time it appears to a sanitary authority that, in any tenement house within their district,
sufficient and suitable accommodation for the storage or cooking of food is not provided for the