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There are approximately 1,287 shops and places other than shops in the
Borough which are liable to inspection.
The Shops Acts and Street Trading Inspector submits a monthly report
to the Public Health Committee, and the following is a short summary of the
work carried out during the year.
Visits to Shops, Licensed Street Traders, etc 1,301
Washing facilities, sink water heaters installed 30
Contraventions were in the main of a minor character, mostly concerned
with the exhibition of notices.
Shops Act, 1950 Section 17(1) Conditions of Employment
Provisions as to assistants' half-holiday. Letters of warning were sent
to the occupiers of 4 shops where assistants were found working during the
occasion of their weekly half-holiday.
Shops Act 1950—Sunday Trading
Twenty-nine shops were visited in addition to supervisory operations
and observations. Two contraventions were discovered; letters of warning
were sent. Registers required to be kept under this Act were inspected
periodically.
Young Persons (Employment) Act, 1938
Cinemas and Boot and Shoe Repairing are the only occupations where
young persons are being employed under the above Act. The Registers kept
at these premises were perodically inspected.
Middlesex County Council Act, 1944-1950.
Street Trading.—Legal proceedings were instituted by the Council in
three cases during 1952, the summons against one being dismissed. Summonses
were issued in connection with the other two and fines totalling
£3 1s. Od. were imposed.
The inspection of shops, stalls and other traders' premises coming within
the scope of the Acts has been carried out throughout the year, including
Sundays and evenings.
PREVALENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Measles and Whooping Cough.
These diseases were made compulsorily notifiable in October, 1939, 1,036
cases of Measles and 8 cases of Whooping Cough were notified during the
year. There were no deaths from these diseases.
Diphtheria.
No cases were notified during the year; two cases were notified in 1951.
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