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It is just ten years since I first drew attention to the need of a
Refuse Destructor and I must respectfully beg that the Council will
lose no further time in having one erected.
Although probably the organic matter in the dust bin refuse is
rendered inert in 3 or 4 years, yet during the process of nitrification
noxious fumes and gasses are given off, and moreover in the hot
weather the residents in the immediate neighbourhood of the shoot
are pestered with flies.
FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901.
As required by Section 132 of the above Act, I beg to report on
or the administration of the same in this District during the year.
There are 338 Workshops on the Register, but this as I mentioned
last year is not all, as we are constantly finding out premises which
come under the Act, the occupier having failed to report himself
or herself.
When Classified, there are 250 Laundries, 26 Bakehouses, and
62 other Workshops. These include tenement and domestic Workshops
but not Domestic Factories or Workplaces.
Personally I have made 73 inspections, and the Sanitary
Inspectors 305. It will be noticed that the Laundry Industry
comprises the chief business of the Workshops.
As to the sanitation of these premises, which embraces cleanliness,
air space, ventilation, and drainage, I must say it is very good on the
whole, very few Notices having to be served, and no prosecutions
have been necessary.
Of the 26 Bakehouses on the Register 8 are underground. It
has been necessary to serve Notices on the occupiers of some of
these premises as to sanitary defects, all the premises have been
regularly whitewashed twice yearly as prescribed by the Act, and
visited 95 times by the Sanitary Inspectors.
Under Section 22 of the Public Health Act AmendmentAct, 1890
which relates to W.C. accommodation in Factories and Workshops,
one closet for persons of either sex has been provided, and no
prosecutions have been necessary to enforce the provisions of this
section.