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EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES
Applications for licences under the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944—
Part 14, are dealt with by the Town Clerk, who refers to this department for a
report on the suitability of the facilities and accommodation.
A total of 18 applications were referred, necessitating 95 visits by the public
health inspectors. In no instance was a licence refused.
PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
Prior to the 1st April, 1965, the public health inspectors made 15 visits to
inspect the sanitary conditions of places of public entertainment on behalf of the
licensing authority, the Middlesex County Council. Since the London Government
Act, 1963, made the Greater London Council the licensing authority, our services in
this respect have not been required.
FACTORIES AND WORKPLACES
The Factories Act, 1961, is a consolidating Act which repeals and replaces the
Factories Acts, 1937 to 1959, without significant amendment. The Act came into
force on 1st April, 1962 and, inter alia, places on local authorities the responsibility
for the enforcement of the provisions relating to cleanliness, overcrowding, temperature,
ventilation, drainage of floors and sanitary conveniences in respect of any
factory where mechanical power is not used, and the provisions concerning sanitary
conveniences in powered factories.
In accordance with Section 8 (5) of the Act, a register is kept of all factories
situated in the district 772 factories and workshops are registered.
Sixty-eight inspections were made. A number of defects were found, of which
the majority were remedied during the year and in no case was it found necessary
to institute legal proceedings.
(Statistical Tables 44, 45—sec page 136).
OUTWORKERS
Section 133 (1) (c) of the Factories Act, 1961, requires occupiers of factories
to notify local authorities of the names and addresses of persons employed by them
in their own homes. The following table shows, by trades, the number of
workers residing in the district:—
Wearing apparel 111
Brass and brass articles 37
Electrical cables 225
Handbags 1
Box-making, etc., wholly or partially of paper 3
Carding, etc., of buttons 24
Stuffed toys 32
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Forty-one visits were made by the public health inspectors to the houses of
these outworkers and conditions were found to be satisfactory.
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