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SCHOOLS.
There are eight public elementary schools which have been
built since the War and two dating back a few score years. The
sanitary condition and water supply of these schools are satisfactory.
When a case of infectious disease occurs in a school in this
area, notification is made by the Head Teacher to the Medical
Officer of Health, or vice versa, depending upon which person
becomes first aware of it.
There are four small private schools in the area, which are
regularly inspected.
THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACT, 1901, AND THE
FACTORIES ACT, 1937 (WHICH SUPERSEDED THE ACT
OF 1901 ON 1st JULY 1938).
Forty-eight inspections of factories with and without mechanical
power have been made.
There are sixty-four factories with mechanical power and forty-
seven factories without mechanical power on the register, classified
as under:—
Factories with mechanical power. Factories without mechanical power.
Aircraft 1 Artificial Marble 1
Bakehouses 6 Boot Repairs 7
Bicycles 1 Building Materials 1
Boot Repairs 12 Builders' Merchants 2
Caravans 1 Chemical Engineers 1
Cheese 1 Cycle Repairs 13
Cocoa, Chocolates, etc. 1 Joinery and Carpentry 3
Corn Flakes and Potato Crisps 1 Motor Repairs 7
Corrugated Cardboard, etc 1 Plumbing 1
Electric Transformers 1 Radio Engineers 3
Engineering 6 Smithies 3
Fire Extinguishers 1 Soft Furnishings 1
Firewood 2 Timber 2
Furniture 3 Valet Services 2
Glazed Tiles, etc. 2
Hardwood Floors 1
Jams, etc. 1
Joinery 2
Mineral Waters 1
Motor Repairs 6
Music Rolls 1
Oil Blending 1
Paint 1
Pavings 1
Pianos 1
Printing 3
Radio, Gramophones, etc. 1
Rubber 1
Slab Partitions 1
Tarmacadam 1
Wire 1
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