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industrial origin with respect to their effects on persons living within the vicinity. It gives tentative
proposals for a method of measuring a noise together with a set of corrections covering a
common range of environmental conditions, in order to predict whether the noise in question is
likely to give rise to complaints. This is helpful but though reactions to noise may be predicted
individuals have different thresholds of tolerance and in individual cases judgement of nuisance
depends very much on subjective reactions.
121 complaints of noise were received during the year, and although not all were dealt with to
the satisfaction of complainants, occupiers of factories and other business premises were not
uncooperative.
SHOPS AND OFFICES
The Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 and a number of Regulations made thereunder
regulate working conditions in offices and shops. Public health inspectors, and shops
inspectors of the Town Clerk's Department, collaborate in these measures to secure the health,
safety and welfare of persons employed in such premises.
The Town Clerk is responsible for the registration procedure and the publication of an annual
report to the Minister of Labour. The following is an extract from the report, setting out the number
of premises registered, an analysis of persons employed and the number of general inspections
made.

Table B - Number of Visits of all kinds by Inspectors to Registered Premises
5573
63