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FACTORY ACT, 1937
1. INSPECTIONS for purposes of provisions as to health (including inspections made by Sanitary
Inspectors)
Premises
Number
on
Register
Number of
Inspections
Written
notices
Occupiers
prosecuted
(i) Factories in which Sections 1, 2, 3,
4 and 6 are to be enforced by Local
Authorities
130
46
1
-
(ii) Factories not included in (i) in which
Section 7 is enforced by the Local
Authority
178
56
3
-
(iii) Other Premises in which Section 7 is
enforced by the Local Authority (excluding
out-workers' premises)
2
2
2
—
TOTAL
310
104
6
—
2. CASES IN WHICH DEFECTS WERE FOUND
Particulars
Number of cases in which defects were
found
Number
of cases
in which
prosecutions
were
instituted
F ound
Remedied
Referred
To H.M.
Inspector
By H.M.
Inspector
Want of cleanliness (S.1)
7
7
—
Overcrowding (S.2)
-
—
—
—
—
Unreasonable temperature (S.3)
—
—
—
—
—
Inadequate ventilation (S.4)
—
—
—
1
—
Ineffective drainage of floors (S.6)
—
—
—
—
—
Sanitary Conveniences (S.7)
(a) Insufficient
3
1
—
1
—
(b) Unsuitable or defective
10
11
—
1
—
(c) Not separate for sexes
1
1
—
—
—
Other offences against the Act (not
including offences relating to Outwork)
f
1
1
—
—
-
TOTAL
22
21
—
3
-
The total number of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces on the Register is 377.
The trades carried on at the respective premises are as follows:—
Bakehouses 31
Boot Repairers 32
Builders Workshops 20
Cycle Makers or Repairers 6
Farriers and Blacksmiths 3
Glass Blowers 1
General Engineers & Motor Engineers 56
Laundries 1
Monumental Masons 4
Motor Accessory Manufacturers 5
Prepared Meat Factories 2
Printers and Printers' Accessories 14
Restaurant Kitchens 67
Sports Accessory Manufacturers 2
Tailors and Dressmakers 21
Timber Merchants and Sawyers 9
Tyre re-treading 1
Upholsterers 8
Watch and clock repairers 5
X-ray apparatus 1
Other trades 88
22