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6.—Smoke Abatement.
Thirty observations and visits to boiler plants have been made
during the past year. Three statutory notices have been served
but none of the offences has been sufficiently serious to warrant
proceedings being taken.
7.—Swimming Baths.
There is a privately owned swimming bath in the district,
the water for which is efficiently chlorinated. An electric pump
is used to extract the water from the bath for filtration and
chlorination.
SPECIAL CLASSES OF PREMISES AND OCCUPATIONS
SUBJECT TO CONTROL BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY.
Slaughter-Houses.
There are nine slaughter-houses scattered throughout the
district.
Classification in Register:—
Registered 1
Permanent Licence 2
Annual Licence 6
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
Seventy-six inspections of factories and workshops have been
made.
There are forty-three factories and twenty-nine workshops on
the Register, classified as under:—
Factories. Workshops.
Aircraft 1 Bakehouses 4
Bakehouses 4 Boot repairing 3
Breeze Block making 1 Cycle Repairs 4
Cheese 1 Dressmaking 1
Cocoa, Chocolates, etc. 1 Joinery and Carpentry 4
Caravans 2 Motor Repairs 6
Engineering 3 Smithies 2
Furniture 4 Builders' Merchants 4
Glazed Mantels and Curbs 2 Wheelwright 1
Gramophones and Records 1
Infant Foods 1
Jams, etc. 1
Boot Repairers 6
Motor Repairs 2
Mineral Waters 1
Oil Blending 1
Printing, etc. 4
Wire Workers 1
Woodworkers 1
Electrical Transformers 1
Corn Flakes 1
Chemical Works 1
Rubber 1
Fire Extinguishers 1
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