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Enfield 1966

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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Table: OUTWORKERSSection 133(l)(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 outworkers in the district:

OUTWORKERS

Section 133(l)(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 outworkers in the district:

Wearing apparel145
Brass and brass articles5
Electrical cables292
Handbags2
Boxmaking, etc., wholly or partially of paper21
Carding, etc., of buttons3
Paint boxes and paint brushes25
Toys and games44
Artificial flowers10
Umbrellas1
Bed linen, etc.1
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Ten 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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RAG FLOCK AND OTHER FILLING MATERIALS
The purpose of the Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act, 1951, and the
Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Regulations, 1961 and 1965, is to secure
the use of clean filling materials in upholstered articles and other articles which
are stuffed or lined.
Local authorities are required to register premises where filling materials are
used for upholstering, the stuffing or lining of bedding, toys or baby carriages,
other than upholstering (etc.) in the remaking or reconditioning of any article, or in
connection with railway carriages, road vehicles, ships or aircraft.
At the end of the year, 23 premises were registered to use filling materials and
one was registered to store rag flock. Twenty-seven visits were made during the
year and conditions found were satisfactory.
OFFENSIVE TRADES
Section 107 of the Public Health Act, 1936, defines a list of “offensive trades”,
which can only be established with the consent of a local authority. In addition
to the trades listed, a local authority, by Order confirmed by the Minister, may
declare other trades offensive. The business of a dealer in butcher’s wastes was so
declared an offensive trade and is the only such premises in the Borough. Nineteen
visits were paid to this establishment and conditions were found to be satisfactory.
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