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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Hayes and Harlington 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]

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THE FACTORIES ACT, 1937
Sixty-one inspections of factories, with and without
mechanical power, have been made during the year.
There are one hundred and nineteen factories with
mechanical power and five factories without mechanical
power on the register, classified as under:

Table: Factories With Mechanical Power:

Factories With Mechanical Power:

Aircraft1Motor repairs9
Bakers11Munitions1
Building Materials2Oil blending1
Boot repairs12Plastics1
Caravans1Potato crisps1
Carbon products1Printing5
Cheese1Radioo
Chemical engineers1Refrigerator repairs1
Cocoa and chocolates1Repair of agricultural
Coil winding1implements1
Domestic appliances1Rubber1
Electric transformers1Sausages1
Engineering37Saw mills1
Fire extinguishers1Slab partitions3
Firelighters1Sports equipment1
Furniture3Tarmacadam1
Glazed tiles2Upholstery repairs1
Jams1Valet services1
Joinery4Wire1
Lighting shades1Wood block floors1
Mineral water1
Factories Without Mechanical Power:
Cigarette lighters1Smith"L
Motor repairs1Stove enameling1
Oil blending1

Table: 1.—Inspections:

1.—Inspections:

PremisesNumber of
InspectionsWritten NoticesOccupiers Prosecuted
586-
Factories without mechanical power31—
Other premises under the Act (including work of building and engineering construction but not including out-workers' premises)---
Total617—