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those substances to which Section 5 of the Poisons and Pharmacy Act, 1908, had
applied (ammonia, carbolic disinfectants, sulphuric, nitric and hydrochloric acids
and salts of lemon) and a number of substances used in agriculture and horticulture
and also certain dyes.
The Council authorised the Public Health Committee to administer the
powers provided in the Act. Notice of the new requirements was given in the
local press and in many instances shopkeepers who were known previously to have
been selling the substances specified were communicated with. By the end of
the year the number of traders whose names had beeni placed on the List was 112.
Factories and Workshops.
Factories are increasing in the Borough largely as a result of the introduction
of small electric motors in tailors' and dressmaking establishments. The number
of workshops, many of them domestic workshops, is considerable, however, and
work in relation to them bulks very large amongst the duties of the district
inspectors, more especially those in charge of districts on the south of Marylebone
Road. The staple industry is, of course, dressmaking, millinery and tailoring in
all its branches, but in a number of places other trades are carried on.
The total number of visits to factories, workshops and workplaces during the
year was 2,025. The complaints received numbered 53.
The following report which the Medical Officer of Health is required to make
to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in accordance with the provisions
of Section 132 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, gives, in addition
to other information, the total number of defects found and of notices served.